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jmowreader

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37. Welch's invented the grape juice business for exactly that reason

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Mon Aug 26, 2013, 02:29 PM

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Numbers 6 proves "wine" isn't a misprint [View all] jmowreader Aug 2013 OP

I have never heard of this before. What is the objection to the word wine? cbayer Aug 2013 #1

I've never heard a fundamentalist maintain okasha Aug 2013 #3

Agree. I have met some fundamentalists that don't drink because they think cbayer Aug 2013 #5

I've heard the grape juice thing when i was a kid. ntt rrneck Aug 2013 #7

That it was a mistranslation? I believe you. cbayer Aug 2013 #9

Can't say for sure. rrneck Aug 2013 #10

My Southern Baptisi mother okasha Aug 2013 #17

Did she never read Ecclesiastes? cbayer Aug 2013 #18

Ecclesiastes? okasha Aug 2013 #21

I like both of those books, as well as many of the Psalms. cbayer Aug 2013 #25

There's a lot of wisdom in those books, okasha Aug 2013 #33

Not familiar with Wisdom. Interesting stuff. cbayer Aug 2013 #35

Southern Baptists never have sex standing up. rrneck Aug 2013 #23

Someone has defined Calvinism okasha Aug 2013 #24

I learned from the staff at a hotel in Nashville rrneck Aug 2013 #26

And I'll bet okasha Aug 2013 #28

The porn channels do well, too. nt Nay Aug 2013 #29

Remember the old phrase "Protestant work ethic""? jmowreader Aug 2013 #36

There is this... jmowreader Aug 2013 #11

The fundies I met say all wine drank by the good guys in the Bible were magically made non-alcoholic 2ndAmForComputers Sep 2013 #40

Hic! I dunno. longship Aug 2013 #4

Our church served grape juice out of respect to those who did not or could not cbayer Aug 2013 #6

Welch's blueridge3210 Aug 2013 #16

Welch's invented the grape juice business for exactly that reason jmowreader Aug 2013 #37

Of course they read it wrong Warpy Aug 2013 #2

If I ever run across someone who says that, I'll tell them. rug Aug 2013 #8

More people are probably familiar with the wedding bmbmd Aug 2013 #12

New wine is better? Then why vintages? aquart Aug 2013 #15

"New" bmbmd Aug 2013 #19

I would definitely take a case. cbayer Aug 2013 #20

So would I. okasha Aug 2013 #22

okasha, if you like wine, check out Nakedwines.com cbayer Aug 2013 #27

Thanks! okasha Aug 2013 #34

When the new wine is made by Jesus, miraculously, Mariana Aug 2013 #32

When Jesus makes wine he makes the good stuff jmowreader Aug 2013 #38

the first thing Noah d_r Aug 2013 #13

Frankly, I'm more suspicious of a substitution of wine for an original beer. aquart Aug 2013 #14

What store carries marriage registries for Politicalboi Aug 2013 #30

I've come across this one, and my favorite response is by Robert Farrar Capon Fortinbras Armstrong Aug 2013 #31

I just discovered that Father Capon died earlier this month. Fortinbras Armstrong Sep 2013 #39