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> Although I hope you are ready to meet lots of Christians and a few alcoholics every year.

Always good to lump the Christians in with the alcoholics.



No offense to the christians. I was just trying to think of groups that compose more than 10% of the population.


Oh, I thought they meant it the other way around. At least when one of us gets too into wine we don't start a crusade.


Fair enough.


They're just jealous that christians have more fun.


I do believe the modern (us) conservative evangelical "back to basics" movement started in the 30s/40s as a response to rampant alcoholism from the great depression. Church of christ and similar denominations. They take a (claimed) "hyper" literal approach over a few key issues, like alcohol, sex, drugs, taxes, tithing, homosexuality.. Recent history was the 90s abstinence movement.. And in the last 7 or so years these have been the churches taking the brunt of the exodus and have been largely deflated, with churches across the nation dying due to lack of new young people.

I would wager good money that most modern conservative US Christian families have a male alcoholic relative not too far removed.

The alcoholics and Christians go together.


> I would wager good money that most modern conservative US Christian families have a male alcoholic relative not too far removed.

I think that has more to do with the pervasiveness of Christianity and alcoholism independent of each other.


Or reverse causation, even... I've known more people turned alcoholic to cope with their christian family than people turned christian to cope with their alcoholic family.




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