CNN: Praise the Lord and pass the beer, change is brewing among American Christians

February 8, 2014

Something is brewing among American Protestants, and it has a decidedly hoppy flavor.

Don’t drink only water. You ought to drink a little wine for the sake of your stomach because you are sick so often.

1 Timothy 5:23
The selling of bad beer is a crime against Christian love.

Martin Luther
Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart, for God has already approved what you do.

Ecclesiastes 9:7
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy

Benjamin Franklin
Beer is made by man, wine by God.

Martin Luther
If you are tired and downhearted, take a drink; but this does not mean being a pig and doing nothing but gorging and swilling… You should be moderate and sober; this means that we
should not be drunken, though we may be exhilarated. [Sermon on Soberness and Moderation]

Martin Luther
He makes…wine that gladdens human hearts.

Psalm 104:15
Others drink to forget. Christians drink to remember.

Anonymous
He was a wise man who invented beer

Plato
If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs.

David Daye
God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as He loves vegetation

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.

Anne Sexton