RELIGION AND SOCIETY

Religion and Society ~ 425 ~ others. It is not then the practice of drinking which is be punished, but the harm which is done, or could be done to other people. Yet, not only is alcohol harmful to the health, but it is also a great drain on one’s financial resources. Whole families can be reduced to destitution by one man’s alcoholism. By paralyzing the finer instincts alcohol makes it easier for a person to commit crimes such as murder, theft, rape and robbery. In fact, it so reduces one’s sense of propriety that one becomes little better than an animal. Society is fully aware that such things are happening, but is not able to prohibit alcohol by law. Why is this so? Because it cannot find a solid justification for clamping restrictions upon what people eat and drink. Divine law, being an expression of the will of God Almighty, provides a solution to this problem. The very fact that its origin is God is sufficient reason for its application in the world of man. It does not require any further justification. God is Allknowing and All-seeing. When He prohibits something, it is because, quite simply, it is bad for man, and what ever is bad for man should be considered a crime and at all times eschewed.