I’ll admit it.  I’m very uncomfortable about people who drink.  My family doesn’t drink.  I don’t have many close friends who drink.  I’m a teetotaler.   When I have a party at my house I’m very adamant about not having alcohol.  Once someone tried to bring alcohol in, causing some awkward moments as they scuddled it out.

Prohibition as an idea was a good thing.  In reality Americans could not handle life without alcohol and therefore it failed.  I wish it hadn’t failed.

Think about those drunk driving deaths (9,967 in 2014); those injured in drunk driving crashes (290,000 in 2014) (source).  Can we avoid this?

Countless number of times alcohol is involved in domestic abuse cases causing violence, broken marriages, among other things. Not to mention birth defects, liver disease.

If drinking alcohol were a disease the CDC would be on it like white on rice.  Yet we see very little being done to make alcohol less accessible.

Meanwhile Tennesseans just voted that grocery stores can sell wine, ending a century old loophole.  Winedrinkers rejoice. Grocers salivated at their increased profits.  And I did a facepalm about why we are doing this and wondering how it will help our society.  I figured I’d tweet out something like “Nothing good can come wine in grocery stores,” citing  Ephesians 5:18.  I figured someone would respond with 1 Timothy 5:23.

But it something we need to ask ourselves?  Can we get along without alcohol?  Can we start making alcohol less accessible?