What's the deal with monks brewing and drinking alcohol? I thought it was a sin?

What's the deal with monks brewing and drinking alcohol? I thought it was a sin?

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drinking too much is a sin, it falls under gluttony

and monks and monasteries mostly just brew and distilled alcohol for medicinal purposes

Priest told me drinking to intoxication is the sin

>beer for medicinal purposes
Also
>gluttony
Gluttony is eating more than your body needs. Your body has 0 need for alcohol, so any amount is more than your body needs.

They don't just drink, they brew too.
>not my problem
doesn't seem very monk-like

unfortunately it's corruption that led to this
even if you try to forbid them, the Jews and the gov't will oppose you, because alcohol products can be very profitable for trade markets.

I see where you are going, but I think they were hosting people and made beer for them, it was from old times

>Institutions become corrupt
News at 11, nigger. The jew fears the solitary man of god.

The main character of the Bible literally made wine out of water. Why would brewing alcoholic beverages be sinful?

>I thought it was a sin?

Who told you that?

Thank you based monks for delivering Trappist beer to us
Seethe

tryhard faggot

>Priest told me drinking to intoxication is the sin

Did he define "intoxication"? Like does that include a mild buzz or just getting falling down drunk?

It was nothing like the modern piss lager. Such beer was basically a heavily nutritious broth which sustained the monks and their work in the fields.

>Swedish education

People drank alcohol more than water for the most part... it was also very low in alcohol content. Cider was also very popular as well, hence why most monks also had orchards. They'd often serve their serfs up grog, a watered down sour cider.

worry 'bout yourself

The mods are garbage, delete threads lacking research.
>i went to school and they made me stupid
Maybe

Catholics are idol worshipers who believe a man speaks for God.

It was in confession i told him i got hammered so idk, if you drink a 10% trappist beer you will be buzzed so

Sure, but your body does need clean water. Brewing weak alcohol is a good way to make your water safe to drink

We generally agree that the (((Church))) is a pedo tranny homo operation that has kids chained in the basement, and as such, (((drinking))) is par for the course.

>Your body has 0 need for alcohol, so any amount is more than your body needs.
false
Low alcohol content purifies water, making safe to drink.
Also if in pain, perfectly acceptable to drink to alleviate it, hence medicinal.
If using a substance is a sin, falls under if it affects the intellect/will (our spiritual faculties) if 3-4 pints makes you merry but doesn't impede your intellect/ will it's fine, if 7-8 pints has you on the phone calling for a bag of cocaine because intellect diminished & will weakened, now you're in sin
.t Teetotal former alkie junkie

Yeah protestantism is a fucking cancer

Clean drinking water was pretty rare.
Making mead or beer was safer

Lutherans drink retard

> We generally agree that the (((Church))) is a pedo tranny homo operation
no.
lower rates of kiddie fiddling than public school teachers.
MUCH lower rates than jewish rabbis (what, 18x less)

When I was a kid my parents would have a parish priest over for dinner about once a month or so. He'd knock back 2-3 whiskies. Never got plastered but his face would get flushed and it would put him in a jolly mood. I'm not saying priests can't sin or be hypocrites but he was a conservative hardass so I doubt he would have been flagrantly sinning in front of children.

obviously blacking out drunk you fucking tard

>talking to my atheist boomer in laws about trappist beer
>they ask me why monks made alcohol if it's a sin
>tell them about how it was for the community and beer was safer than water and technically drinking isn't a sin in itself and the monasteries were self funding etc
>"hur hur I bet they just got absolutely smashed all the time hurhur"
>"typical Christians hurhur probably got up to all sorts of shit in their little monasteries"

>If using a substance is a sin, falls under if it affects the intellect/will (our spiritual faculties) if 3-4 pints makes you merry but doesn't impede your intellect/ will it's fine, if 7-8 pints has you on the phone calling for a bag of cocaine because intellect diminished & will weakened, now you're in sin

That's a pretty reasonable approach.

Jesus turned water in to wine.

Gluttony is drinking to the point that it harms your body (the temple of god). Eating more than 1600 calories of beans and rice is not gluttony

It's not obvious dipshit the opinions are all over the place on that question.

All Christian sects worship a canaanite God Yahweh.

Jesus was a retard who got "drunk" off of water.

I can’t believe people can drink 7-8 pints, i drink 2 and am plastered

>your body does need clean water. Brewing weak alcohol is a good way to make your water safe to drink
Alcohol induces dehydration retard and fresh water is plentiful in nature

you are a fucking idiot, but i dont expect anything from faggots like you.

beer was brewed to make water potable throughout the year for regions that had bad water, monks still refined techniques and learned how to make stronger spirits eventually.

anyway: if you drink beer to get drunk, you are retarded anyways.

Monk's gotta eat. Need some way to make money that doesn't involve too much physical labor.

>Alcohol induces dehydration retard and fresh water is plentiful in nature
You absolute nigger, where do you think people took shits back then? Rivers, etc.

Go ahead and drink unfiltered river water, retardado.