Reply #13: Depends on the right wing church [View All]

[CrushTheDLC]

The one that I used to go to sent out a church bulletin condemning smoking and drinking as sins. All the smokers bitched about it, because they claimed there were no specific scriptures condemning smoking, as opposed to the few that DID make reference to drunkenness.

I countered with smoking obviously being a defilement of "your body as a temple of the Holy Spirit", since it's known to cause lung cancer, emphysema, heart disease, etc. While on the other hand, Christ's first miracle was to turn water into wine, and later referred to wine as His own blood, setting the example for communion ceremonies that many churches still observe to this day.

Not that church though. They use un-fermented grape juice. And they sided with the tobacco addicts. Hypocrites.

One of the many reasons I left said church.