It is unjust by a secular and also a religious metric since it rejects the custom of many an ethnicities forefathers, not just Christians. It's tantamount to forcing someone to consume it or forgo a fast.
What is the Christian view on prohibition?
Cameron Martin
Jacob Wood
That is an arbitrary standard for a law being unjust.
Jayden Anderson
Well if so the alternative is probably no different which would be what incurs such an arbitration.
But the fact is one's individual capacity to decide for theirself how much alcohol to consume is taken away. Jesus' miracles and parables indicate a non-prohibitionist view. Prohibition is a slipdash measure to the multifaceted problem.
Brody Jenkins
If it is forbidden by law, excepting incursion on the Liturgy/Mass, it must be followed under pain of sin.
Carson Barnes
In a sense, alcohol is just like sex.
Both are good and gifts from God, but both are easily abused.
Lucas Hill
Exactly! It even applies to God's greatest gift of all, His one and only Son Jesus Christ. Jesus' words can be abused just like sex and alcohol can be abused.
Ryder Wilson
Should mandatory consumption, and not specifically being to the effect of intoxication, be followed too then? Barring people from alcohol consumption is at the least a questionable restriction on the freedom of certain religious groups or the individual for that matter.
It would also be interesting to see how the different ecclesiastical authorities would have reacted to prohibition. Many of those in the criminal groups involved in the bootleg alcohol trade were also incidently of Catholic extraction.
The fact is that such a law became possible under the same civilian led government which allows religious liberty and eventually did away with prohibition a relatively short time after. Such could be taken as an example of civilian governing being effective. The same government instituted by non-prohibitionists, and the country been so for the majority of its history. Just about all of the other Christian societies throughout history appear to not have engaged in prohibitionism either.
Such a thing works better in a society such as that of the Muslims where it has been an objective from the start. That isn't to say alcoholism is inexistent in the Muslim world, but even there the restrictions didn't necessarily always apply to all of the citzenry or subjects but it might rather have been only required of those who were Muslim. Such is still the case in some modern day nations.
Matthew White
If it would have made Jesus a criminal, it's a shitty law, probably.
Michael Roberts
Why do you lie? Virtually all protestants accept moderate use of alcohol, except for baptists.
Ryan Walker
Areas where Baptists are prevalent have had a problem with whiskey and moonshine abuse.
I'm starting to see a correlation with shitty culinary alcohol culture and the propensity towards prohibitionism in history. The Germans and English have their beer, the Mediterraneans have their wine. Slavs, Americans, and the Irish have had to make do with more industrially processed spirits which are less appeasing and much stronger.