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.

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
He was a wise man who invented beer

Plato
The selling of bad beer is a crime against Christian love.

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
Beer is made by man, wine by God.

Martin Luther
God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as He loves vegetation

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy

Benjamin Franklin
He makes…wine that gladdens human hearts.

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

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

David Daye
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
God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.

Anne Sexton