On a personal level, I don't drink for several reasons.
1) I can't abide the taste. For some reason, even though alcohol is aledgedly tasteless, anything with alcohol in it tastes like battery acid. No one has ever given me a sample that didn't taste awful. I even have trouble in churches that serve real wine instead of grape juice at communion. One time a pastor even tried to exorcise the demons in me because my grimace of distaste proved I must be demon possessed to react that way to the communion wine.
2) It costs more than pepsi. And I am cheap.
3) I have seen (and cleaned up behind) too many who were sick as a dog from drink.
Yet even despite the above, I have to agree that drinking for others is not a sin, but drunkeness is. Drinking in moderation wouldn't even be a sin for me, except that I can't do it.

I like your humor :)

I dislike the taste of beer (makes me feel bloated and "gut" full too). I don't like straight liquor, although on rare occasions I do not mind the common mix such as Bacardi / orange juice or something to that effect. I am mainly a sweet wine with dinner kind of guy. I've had my share of drunkenness as a teen and one specific memory I'll never forget that set me straight for good. I know some people are no drink or too many drinks, no moderation in them. Others don't care for it while some others are social.

I for one do not honestly like bars. I don't mind a nice restaurant/lounge setting but specifically going to a bar to drink to me is not something that GOD would approve. The bar is purposely alcohol and social setting. Take away the alcohol, will the social comers be all "happy hour"? I doubt it. On another hand, every culture is different. I speak from my own experience and country.

MAJ, I also think your post is very funny! You made me laugh.

I don't...like to drink either. It tastes awful and it reacts poorly with my system. I've had all kinds of problems, but never with alcohol. My sister and I were joking one time.....she said alcohol never agreed with her....she said God made everyone in our family like that so that we wouldn't grow up to be drunks, because our home was so dysfunctional.

Well, I do praise God that I don't like liquor, it's one less thing that I have to worry about. My husband won't go near it---he used to be an alcoholic until God delivered him.

My friend about 50 miles away had breast cancer. She is a christian and her doctor told her to drink a small glass of wine every day. She felt odd about doing it, but took his advice seriously. She now does not have breast cancer, she was healed. I'm sure it was God who healed her, but who am I to say that God didn't use the wine to help.

She does not drink the wine any longer, because she is cancer-free.

Agreed. I never go to bars at all as there is nothing there to interest me. And the resturants that do serve drinks are more expensive. So still being cheap and liking Pepsi, I go to McDandy's and such. Or an all you can eat type place. After all, I do admit to the sin of gluttony on occasion.

So glad, Dreamer, that you and Chad like my humor. So many Christians tend to be grouchy. Some actually complained to me that my plays and puppet shows had funny lines.
I have the opposite problem, family wise, as my whole family drinks like fish. None of them can figure out where I inherited an anti-taste-of-alcohol gene. Glad for your friend. It is true that many prescription drugs in liquid form do have an alcohol base, but I am surprised that the doctor prescibed the alcohol itself, without any drugs mixed in.

I've been in alcoholism recovery for a long time and, as such, I've never read or heard from any alcoholic who enjoyed the taste of the stuff from the moment of the first drink.

All drinkers (alcoholic or not), drink alcohol for the effect, not for enjoyment of the taste, although tolerance for the taste does develop after a while.

SLE

yes alot of my family members suffered from this diease

My father struggled for years but has been sober for about 6years now.

He always told me he hated the taste of it at the begining and just drank because that was what everyone else was doing

Ireland is a massive drinking country, at the end of the day down to the pub for a pint is the normal thing to do.

I drank in my teenage years (far too much) but once i begame pregnant i stoped that was three years ago i havent touched a drink sence i dont miss it

Others here think im weird because i dont want to drink, i guess they cant understand it,

God Bless

You mean that those drinking the stuff don't like the taste either? Never knew that one. To watch those wine tastings, of how they argue about which brand tastes better and other such stuff, us teetottlers would never have guessed it.

Yes every one i have asked all said the same thing to me -

I hated the taste untill i just got use to it....

Seems crazy to want something that tastes bad ,but i guess its not the taste people drink for

God Blessxxxxxxxxx

For the average drinker and the alcoholic, the important thing is the effect, not the taste., although they do develop a tolerance for the taste after awhile that, combined with their strong desire for the stuff, causes them to convince themselves that it tastes good, this is called "an acquired taste".

You mention wine tastings. Those folks are what is known as connosieurs. They do not drink so much for the effect as for the pleasure of investigating the intricasies and subleties in the taste. I doubt that any of them are alcoholics because connosieurs sip while "normal" drinkers take a mouthful and alcoholics tend to guzzle.

No drinker, in my opinion, can claim that they really liked the taste of the very first drink. I did not enjoy the taste when I first started , but I liked the "relaxing" effect. After a while, an acquired taste developed and made it palatable. But, the number one draw was always the effect.


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SLE

I certainly used to drink too much as a student at University, and after an incident which left me very embarassed and humiliated I realised I was being a total fool. I wasn't an alcoholic, but if I went out with friends, I didn't restrain myself at all.

I still drink occasionally now, but it's a glass of wine with a meal. I live on my own, and even if I opened a bottle of wine, I wouldn't drink more than one glass, so it's wasteful. I tend to only drink out with friends and have one or two and switch to soft drinks.

I do agree that a certain glass of wine can add to a meal, like a red wine with beef or duck, and white with pasta and chicken.

I was in Scotland this weekend, and it was so very cold, and an uncle offered me a sip of brandy to warm me up. It was horrid. I managed one sip and pulled such a face. I couldn't drink it. Bleurgh!