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> Although I hope you are ready to meet lots of Christians and a few alcoholics every year. Always good to lump the Christians in with the alcoholics.
by war1025 5y ago
> Although I hope you are ready to meet lots of Christians and a few alcoholics every year.
Always good to lump the Christians in with the alcoholics.
- iammisc 5y agoThey're just jealous that christians have more fun.
- Notanothertoo 5y agoI do believe the modern (us) conservative evangelical "back to basics" movement started in the 30s/40s as a response to rampant alcoholism from the great depression. Church of christ and similar denominations. They take a (claimed) "hyper" literal approach over a few key issues, like alcohol, sex, drugs, taxes, tithing, homosexuality.. Recent history was the 90s abstinence movement.. And in the last 7 or so years these have been the churches taking the brunt of the exodus and have been largely deflated, with churches across the nation dying due to lack of new young people. I would wager good money that most modern conservative US Christian families have a male alcoholic relative not too far removed. The alcoholics and Christians go together.
- war1025 5y ago> I would wager good money that most modern conservative US Christian families have a male alcoholic relative not too far removed. I think that has more to do with the pervasiveness of Christianity and alcoholism independent of each other.
- abeyer 5y agoOr reverse causation, even... I've known more people turned alcoholic to cope with their christian family than people turned christian to cope with their alcoholic family.
- deregulateMed 5y agoNo offense to the christians. I was just trying to think of groups that compose more than 10% of the population.