Alcohol is the most dangerous drug when you
look at the overall damages to society and individuals. Booze is far more
common, since it is legal and glamorized, than illegal drugs or other forms
of substance abuse.
Alcohol has led many
unsuspecting victims into the SIN of drunkenness (Galatians 5:21). And
drunkenness leads to every sin imaginable (Proverb 23:29-35). Booze
destroys lives!!!
I stood over the graves of a mother and her child,
both murdered by a drunk driver. The drunk driver lived, but he murdered
a pregnant mother and her unborn child. I saw the father's uncontrollable
tears. I saw the heartbroken family.
I saw the little white coffin being
lowered into a small grave alongside it's mother. That is something I will
never forget. Alcohol is
inherently EVIL!
One of the biggest problems is corporate greed
that has made booze a Madison Avenue product, marketing beer to America's
youth as something they cannot live without. Beer commercials feature young,
healthy, and energetic people having fun while drinking booze.
It sends the
wrong message to young people. The message conveyed by beer advertisements
is that drinking alcohol brings social acceptance and good times.
In reality
booze brings addiction to people who NEVER intended to become addicted.
Alcohol is highly addictive, which is reason enough to abstain from it
completely. I've seen alcohol addiction drive men to steal, drink
paint-thinner, and get drunk with every dollar they could get their hands
on. The Bible is filled with Scriptures condemning alcohol drinking...
Isaiah 24:9, “They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them
that drink it.”
Alcohol brings death and destruction, but the
beer companies never show you that. The Devil always shows young people the
neon lights, not the rehabilitation centers and graveyards. Jesus said that
the Devil is a liar, thief, and murderer who only comes to kill, steal, and
destroy (John 10:10; 8:44).
Television is a powerful tool. Beer companies
are as subtle as the Devil, attempting to shirk off any legal liability by
placing a fine print message at the end of their commercials saying, “Drink
responsibly.” May I say, there is no responsible way to drink booze. Even
one drink alters a person's mind chemically, whether they realize it or not.
One drink usually leads to two and then three. All it takes is ONE TIME.
Many people who have handled their alcohol drinking for years, end up
hurting or killing someone while drunk.
Years ago I worked with a big rugged man named
Dean. He was in his late 20's and originally from Iowa. He had been drinking
one day and I watched him run a knife through into his hand. His thumb was
dangling. One day Dean came into work and told me that his best friend sued
him in court. Dean had been drinking and got into an accident. His friend
was in the passenger's seat and was severely injured. Dean's buddy sued him
in court and was awarded $19,000 in damages. The court garnished Dean's
wages for years to come. That is the reality of what alcohol does to people,
the reality that beer companies refuse to tell people.
Granted, Dean is mostly to blame, but the beer
companies are also to blame, since they lure youth into the alcohol
lifestyle. Men think that they are without fault if the law stands behind
their evils, but that is not the way God sees it. Abortion is murder! It
matters not that the wicked Supreme Court, nor evil Planned Parenthood, nor
the murdering abortionist, says taking a baby's life is fine and acceptable.
God said, “THOU SHALT NOT KILL!” (Exodus 20:13). Likewise, the
Bible says that drunkenness is a sin (1st Corinthians 6:10; Galatians 5:21).
Drunkenness is NOT defined by man's .08 BAC limit, but by one's words and
actions while under the influence of alcohol. Many people says horrible
things when they drink beer, and do things that they normally wouldn't do.
God will hold every beer drinker accountable for everything they do or even
say (Matthew 12:36) while under the influence of alcohol.
To say that it is ok for a person to drink
beer, when God said that drunkenness is a sin, makes no sense. The Bible
refers to intoxicating wine as “strong drink.” Proverb 20:1 condemns
consuming strong drink of any sort. Today's beer is highly intoxicating in
comparison to the naturally fermented grape juice in Biblical times. The
Bible plainly commands in Proverb 23:29 not to look upon the wine when it is
red, when it moveth itself alright.
One man got drunk, beat his wife, took a knife
and cut his son's head off in the kitchen. When the father sobered up the
next day in a prison cell, he didn't believe what he was being charged with.
He didn't even remember what he had done. Listen to the red-hot sermon for
yourself,
Alcohol: Public Enemy # 1.
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There are many subtle and subliminal methods
used to promote booze to people...
...the beer companies
that aim their advertising mainly at poor members of minority groups use
the cobra, bull, dragon, tiger, stallion and pit bull to convey their
messages. “The idea is to sell wildness and power to the powerless.” (U.
S. News &
World Report, “Hostility among the icecubes,” July 15, 1991.)
Isn't that sad? Beer companies target the poor
and minority groups, deceiving them into believing that drinking beer will
empower them. In reality, drinking beer diminishes a person's ability to
think clearly, and causes them to lose control with each drink. Beer does
the exact opposite of what the beer companies allude, rendering the victim
powerless.
American culture has been INDOCTRINATED by
television and music to love booze. From Katy Perry's lyrics
WE DROVE TO CALI
AND GOT DRUNK, to Toby Keith's
LET'S GET DRUNK AND BE SOMEBODY, American culture glorifies
drinking alcohol. Television is saturated with people drinking beer, making
beer-drinking look like such a wonderful activity. They never show you the
hospitals, prisons, and morgues; but rather, the glamorous nightlife, lots
of friends, and people having a fun time drinking booze. The Devil is a
beautiful liar! All of Satan's apples have worms! Sin will always take you
further than you planned to go, keep you longer than you intended to stay,
and cost you more than you wanted to pay.
Another big problem is parents and family
relatives who drink booze and set bad examples for kids to follow. Adults
can preach all they want about abstinence from drugs and beer, but teens are
going to do as their parents do. The biggest hypocrisy in the world are
people who go around saying “say no to drugs,” while guzzling beer by the
gallons.
Illegal drugs are everywhere in America today.
Honolulu, Hawaii (on the island of Oahu) is a drug-crazed place infested
with crime because of illegal drugs. How do all those drugs get to an
isolated island 2,500 miles from any sizeable landmass? Everything goes
through customs.
Gary Webb was murdered for exposing the CIA's involvement bringing
illegal drugs into America's cities. Faithful Representatives in Congress;
such as Maxine Waters, Ron Paul, and Cynthia McKinney, have all said they
believe the government is bringing illegal drugs into the country.
Ninety-percent of the world's heroine (opium) is grown in Afghanistan, where
U.S. troops are stationed as opium farmers.
Russia has called repeatedly for destruction of the opium in
Afghanistan, because of the 70,000 heroine deaths every year in Russia. NATO
said no, and the heroine problem continues. The street value of the heroine
coming from Afghanistan is worth over $500,000,000,000.
I thank God for organizations like Mother
Against Drunk Drivers (MADD) who are doing their best to fight against
the evils of alcohol, but God is Against more than just drunk drivers... GOD
HATES ALCOHOL, THE SALOON, AND THE ENTIRE BEER INDUSTRY.
"Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath
contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath
redness of eyes? They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to
seek mixed wine. Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it
giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the
last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. Thine eyes
shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things. Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he
that lieth upon the top of a mast. They have stricken me, shalt thou
say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall
I awake? I will seek it yet again." —Proverb 23:29-35
Alcohol is more dangerous than crystal meth or
heroine, when you look at the consequences of beer on society and
individuals overall. The costs to taxpayers have been staggering. Alcohol is
a menace to society...
Alcohol 'more harmful than heroin'
says Prof David Nutt
November 1st,
2010
Last updated at
10:11 ET
Alcohol is more harmful than heroin
or crack when the overall dangers to
the individual and society are
considered, according to a study in
the Lancet.
The report is co-authored by
Professor David Nutt, the former
government chief drugs adviser who
was sacked in 2009.
It ranked 20 drugs on 16 measures of
harm to users and to wider society.
Heroin, crack and crystal meth were
deemed worst for individuals, with
alcohol, heroin and crack cocaine
worst for society, and alcohol worst
overall.
The study by the Independent
Scientific Committee on Drugs also said
tobacco and cocaine were judged to
be equally harmful, while ecstasy
and LSD were among the least
damaging.
Harm score
Professor Nutt refused to leave the
drugs debate when he was sacked from
his official post by the former
Labour Home Secretary, Alan Johnson.
He went on to form the Independent
Scientific Committee on Drugs, which
says it aims to investigate the drug
issue without any political
interference.
One of its other members is Dr Les
King, another former government
adviser who quit over Prof Nutt's
treatment.
Members of the group, joined by two
other experts, scored each drug for
harms including mental and physical
damage, addiction, crime and costs
to the economy and communities.
The study involved 16 criteria,
including a drug's affects on users'
physical and mental health, social
harms including crime, "family
adversities" and environmental
damage, economic costs and
"international damage."
'Valid and
necessary'
The findings run contrary to the
government's long-established drug
classification system, but the
paper's authors argue that their
system - based on the consensus of
experts - provides an accurate
assessment of harm for policy
makers.
"Our findings lend support to
previous work in the UK and the
Netherlands, confirming that the
present drug classification systems
have little relation to the evidence
of harm," the paper says.
"They also accord with the
conclusions of previous expert
reports that aggressively targeting
alcohol harms is a valid and
necessary public health strategy."
In 2007, Prof Nutt and colleagues
undertook a limited attempt to
create a harm ranking system,
sparking controversy over the
criteria and the findings.
The new, more complex, system ranked
alcohol as three times more harmful
than cocaine or tobacco. Ecstasy was
ranked as causing one-eighth the
harm of alcohol.
It also contradicted the Home
Office's decision to make the
so-called legal high mephedrone a
Class B drug, saying that alcohol
was five times more harmful.
The rankings have been published to
coincide with a conference on drugs
policy, organised by Prof Nutt's
committee.
'Extraordinary lengths'
Prof Nutt told the BBC: "Overall,
alcohol is the most harmful drug
because it's so widely used.
"Crack cocaine is more addictive
than alcohol but because alcohol is
so widely used there are hundreds of
thousands of people who crave
alcohol every day, and those people
will go to extraordinary lengths to
get it."
He said it was important to separate
harm to individuals and harm to
society.
Government advisor Professor
David Nutt likens the effects of
alcohol to a range of other
drugs including heroin.
The Lancet paper written by Prof
Nutt, Dr King and Dr Lawrence
Phillips, does not examine the harm
caused to users by taking more than
one drug at a time.
Gavin Partington, of the Wine and
Spirit Trade Association, said
alcohol abuse affected "a minority"
who needed "education, treatment and
enforcement".
Mr Partington, who is the spokesman
for the Wine and Spirit Trade
Association, said millions of people
enjoyed alcohol "as part of a
regular and enjoyable social drink".
"Clearly alcohol misuse is a problem
in the country and our real fear is
that, by talking in such extreme
terms, Professor Nutt and his
colleagues risk switching people off
from considering the real issues and
the real action that is needed to
tackle alcohol misuse," he said.
"We are talking about a minority. We
need to focus policy around that
minority, which is to do with
education, treatment and
enforcement."
A
Home Office spokesman said: "Our
priorities are clear - we want to
reduce drug use, crack down on
drug-related crime and disorder and
help addicts come off drugs for
good."
SOURCE:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11660210
Beer destroys lives! Why should the
non-alcohol drinking citizens in America have to pay for the reckless and
irresponsible behavior of many of those who DO drink alcohol? Alcohol-related accidents cost the U.S. economy billions-upon-billions of
dollars every year. Why hasn't congress stepped in to put an end to
this evil? I think the following quote says it all...
"Alcohol
and bribery always go together (Isaiah 5:23-23). The pious hypocrite
Rockefeller was a member of the
Anti-Saloon
League and actually donated money to the
prohibition cause ($350,000 worth!). He
HATED the booze business because he did not control it!!
When
prohibition was enacted in 1920, he bought up all the distilleries and
wineries at a pittance.
Then when prohibition was repealed by Rockefeller stooge Roosevelt in
1933, the booze money began to flow into the Rockefeller coffers. That is
why the Rockefeller owned newspapers are constantly telling people that
alcohol is GOOD for you. They know that you will soon be visiting the
Rockefeller controlled "doctors" and be using Rockefeller "drugs" to
cure you. That is why "doctors" in the U.S. are not trying to stop
the alcohol/poison business which is the main cause of illness and death
in the country."
SOURCE
Please read,
Anti-Saloon League Quitters!
"Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath
contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath
redness of eyes? They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to
seek mixed wine. Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it
giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the
last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. Thine eyes
shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he
that lieth upon the top of a mast. They have stricken me, shalt thou
say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall
I awake? I will seek it yet again." —Proverb 23:29-35
"The saloon is the sum of all villainies. It is worse than war or
pestilence. It is the crime of crimes. It is the parent of
crimes and the mother of sins. It is the appalling source of misery
and crime in the land. And to license such an incarnate fiend of hell
is the dirtiest, low-down, damnable business on top of this old earth."
—Billy Sunday (Quoted from the
sermon, The Curse of the Saloon
Facts Prove the Deceptive
Nature of Booze
Beer is extremely dangerous because it contains
less alcohol than stronger drinks such as whiskey. Beer drinkers are
under a FALSE sense of security and are likely to consume much more alcohol. Most deaths caused by alcohol are directly the result of BEER drinking, not
hard liquor. ALL types of alcoholic drinks need to be banned from
American society. America needs Billy Sundays to rise up all
across this once great nation, preaching uncompromisingly hard and loud
against the sin of drinking alcohol.
-
Fact: Beer is the drink most commonly
consumed by people stopped for alcohol-impaired driving or involved in
alcohol-related crashes. -Source
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Fact: In
2001, more than half a million people were injured or disfigured in
crashes where police reported that alcohol was present — an average of one
person injured approximately every minute. One third of these were
children. -Source
-
Fact: In 2002, an estimated 17,419 people
died in alcohol–related traffic crashes—an average of one every 30
minutes. These deaths constitute 41 percent of the 42,815 total traffic
fatalities. -Source
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Fact: Alcohol is closely linked with
violence. About 40 percent of all crimes (violent and non-violent) are
committed under the influence of alcohol. -Source
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Fact: In 2000, the societal costs of
alcohol-related crashes in the United States averaged $1.00 per drink
consumed. People other than the drinking driver paid $0.60 per drink. -Source
SOURCE: MADD Statistics
God hates beer because it causes
so much misery, death, and heartbreak.
"The American
mongoose is the open licensed saloon. It eats the carpets off the floor and
the clothes from off your back, your money out of the bank, and it eats up
character, and it goes on until at last it leaves a stranded wreck in the
home, a skeleton of what was once brightness and happiness." —Evangelist
Billy Sunday
Don't be fooled friend, death and
tragedy are knocking at your door if you are a beer drinker. It's just a
matter of time.
