Chuck,
A common error about calling drinking a sin, is that the actual sin is over indulgence, which can cover a multitude of actions, or habits. To drink to excess, is to over indulge, ergo, to sin. Gluttony is over indulgence in eating food, which is just as sinful as drinking too much, but as you, and I, both know, those that drink too much can make themselves a hazard to other members of society.
I have said much the same thing about alcoholism, as you have just posted, many times. No matter what a person's situation may be, no one forces that first drink down his throat. It is a conscious decision made by the individual. IMO, to call it a disease is a "cop out" and a way for doctors to charge insurance companies for treatment, when they do not give the best treatment in the first place.
~;=;o --haqi |
