Comments on: To Drink or not to Drink Wine? https://catalog.obitel-minsk.com/blog/2019/05/to-drink-or-not-to-drink-wine Mon, 27 May 2019 19:11:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 By: Eric Nikolai https://catalog.obitel-minsk.com/blog/2019/05/to-drink-or-not-to-drink-wine#comment-502 Mon, 27 May 2019 19:11:14 +0000 https://catalog.obitel-minsk.com/blog/?p=22528#comment-502 This StChrysostom quote at the end of John Nichiporuk’s May27th article, i.e. “Wine isn’t the evil it is alchoholism which is the evil…” creates a bit of a self defeating dicotomy which I will try to break down and reframe:

1. Most people who have decidedly entered recovery, i.e. AA, realize quite quickly it wasn’t the ahcohol which was the problem (but are glad to be rid of it) but it was more particulary the inability to get on with their lives effectively (due to not embracing that bigger picture, a higher power and resource base through a 12 step program)

2. To call Alcoholism the real evil is like calling cancer or diabetes the real evil where as really they are just a manifestation of many smaller symptoms and issues which can and need to be attended to Medically, Spiritually and Educationally. If not, the sufferer is simply trying to avoid the evil instead of bringing it into the light of recovery.

Thanks, Eric Nikolai.

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