You don't like the stats when they go against your own beliefs.
I gave you stats that disproved your beliefs, but you didn't like the conclusions. What did you do. You tried to discredit the source. It doesn't work that way. Stats are stats. You can't so easily dismiss stats. My stats are far more objective than yours since they deal directly with the problem at hand--alcoholism. Yours don't.
You did not give a single stat that even challenged what I have purported on here- not one. What are you talking about?
The fact is that more people die of food abuse diseases than alcohol abuse every year.
That does not mean it is ok to abuse either. It means that this SPECIAL ATTENTION given to the condemnation of alcohol as if it is somehow more deadly or evil than gluttony is terribly misplaced.
I think it is pretty clear that the only people who have this problem are fundamentalists who are stuck in a brief, fleeting period of U.S. History in which prohibtionism was born lasted a short time and died- except among a small group of fundies who hang around and keep the position on life support.
The rest of the world knows better. Christians all over the world for about two thousand years have drunk intoxicating beverages and celebrated them as a gift from the good hands of God- as the Bible teaches they are.
The only significant Christian group to be backwards on this issue (to believe teetotalism to be taught in the Bible) in history came out of the mid 19th to early 20th centuries here in America.
Everyone else has known better.
The Scriptures are clear.
Responsible consumption of alcohol is encouraged in the Word of God, has been practiced by nearly two thousand years of Christians world-wide and ought not be condemned.
The stats are clear. Alcohol abuse is not even as deadly as food abuse.
Your position has no foundation.