- Categories: PROHIBITED- Disliked, RELIGIONS
- Language: ENGLISH
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This book addresses from a Biblical perspective the most This book addresses from a Biblical perspective the most
prevailing, costly and destructive habit of our society, the drinking of alcoholic beverages.
The study begins in Chapter 1 with a look at the drinking problem in America today and Christian’s responsibility towards it. The drinking of alcoholic beverages by over 100 million Americans is rightly regarded by social analysts as America’s number-one public enemy. This “beloved enemy,” as Jack Van Impe calls it, claims at least 100,000 American lives per year, 25 times as many as all illegal drugs combined.
The economic cost to the American society of the use of alcohol is estimated by the National Institute on Alcohol
Abuse and Alcoholism at $117 billion a year. This staggering figure includes the cost of premature deaths, reduced production and special treatments. The real human cost of alcohol, however, transcends any statistical estimate of deaths, disabilities or dollar figures.
A 1987 Gallup Poll indicated that 1 in 4 families are troubled by alcohol. This means that more than 61 million Americans are affected by some alcohol-related problems such as retarded children, divorce, violence in the home, crime, sickness and death!
