Would you support prohibition of alcohol?

[Peyrol]

What a idiot thread.

[Leliana]

What!? That's an outragoeus postulation! :nono: No, Id' never support it. Drinking alcohol is part of European culture, most of all in Austria and Germany. I drank my first sips of beer with 11 on a family party. Thanks mom and dad.

[PetiteParisienne]

No. The abuse of alcohol is the problem; not alcohol itself. I don't drink more than one or two glasses of wine each month, so I have no big attachment to it. Even so, making it illegal is ridiculous. Firstly, there is an art to the creation of wines, ales, lagers, sprits, etc. Many alcohols are created using centuries of traditional craftsmanship. Secondly, alcohol has its place socially. I could not picture a Britain without groups of merry people enjoying cozy winter days together in a pub, or a France without people savouring balmy summer evenings over a bottle of wine. If you take away alcohol, you deny people one of the last bastions of authentic European culture. You also criminalise alcoholics, who need help, not punishment. Anyone who wants to live in a place where alcohol is illegal should move to a Muslim country.

[Leliana]

True Christians can't support prohibition. Jesus himself changed water to wine (Johannes 2:1-11).

[Smaland]

23) Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.

I Timothy 5:23 (King James Version)

To me, alcohol is a prescription-grade drug that you can buy over the counter. If you abuse it, it will bite you, and bite you hard. But if you drink responsibly, it will benefit your health, and help you relax in social situations.

It is laudable to condemn and avoid intoxication, but one can still drink in moderation.

My parents were and are a good example for me. They drink wine and mixed drinks, and I have never seen them drunk; not even once.

[Yaroslav]

You are not christian orthodox ukrainian if you can open such nonsense polls but just a new-protestant sectarian american.
In Ukraine vodka is traditional drink,same with Russia and in other european countries:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vodka
In Transylvania,Serbia,Croatia,Hungary,Slovakia and so on palinka/slivovitz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slivovitz) is traditional drink.
At dacians wine was traditional drink.
Traditional drink as wine is still kept in south Romania,Moldavia and Republic of Moldavia.
Sure all mediteranids countries have as traditional drink wine,same with Georgia.
France also have as traditional drink wine,even though they are not pure mediteranids.
Whisky is traditional drink for UK.
No ideea which is the traditional drink in Scandinavia.

I'm NOT Orthodox. I don't follow traditions, I follow the Bible.

[The Lawspeaker]

I'm NOT Orthodox. I don't follow traditions, I follow the Bible.

That would make you less of a Christian then you think, my friend.

[Yaroslav]

That would make you less of a Christian then you think, my friend.

Oh really?

There is Churchianity and there is Christianity. I am a Christian.

[Supreme American]

Usage of it is beyond out of control. I'd like to keep narcotics illegal so we don't end up as widespread with those as with alcohol.

[Supreme American]

Oh really?

There is Churchianity and there is Christianity. I am a Christian.

Don't question Tuan. He's an expert in Christian theology.