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In reply to the discussion: One child is holding something that's been banned in America to protect them. [View all]IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)However, Jesus did not 'play' with wine in the Bible; he blessed it and drank it. In fact his enemies called him a 'winebibber', in modern terms a wino. This is not to say he really went around drunk, but everybody drank wine in those days and his enemies just accused him of over indulgence.
The fundies get around this by claiming the wine was only to cleanse the bad water and that the blessing to drink wine was removed as soon as modern society gained cleaner water. They also claim the fact that he blessed it was purely symbolic. Of course this flies in the face of their required literalism, but if you point that out, they start screaming at you and accuse you of attacking God rather than their own hypocrisy, which they claim to be non-existent. (You know they love to condemn us Irish-American Catholics to hell for drinking wine and a lot of other imaginary reasons.)
What I'm saying is that altogether I can't think of anyone less qualified to pass judgment on wine or even pictures of it than a bunch of crazy fundies who totally misrepresent the religion they claim to own.