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.

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

Benjamin Franklin
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
Others drink to forget. Christians drink to remember.

Anonymous
Beer is made by man, wine by God.

Martin Luther
He was a wise man who invented beer

Plato
He makes…wine that gladdens human hearts.

Psalm 104:15
God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as He loves vegetation

Ralph Waldo Emerson
The selling of bad beer is a crime against Christian love.

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

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

Anne Sexton
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
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