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Actually, it was a Baptist who invented bourbon. Elijah Craig, minister, entrepreneur, and founder of the Baptist-related Georgetown College in Kentucky is widely credited with creating the official spirit of the Bluegrass State around 1789. Today, Kentucky's Heaven Hill Distillery sells a high-end single-barrel bourbon named after Craig.

Most historians trace the teetotaling movement to the 1830s and problems with alcohol abuse on the frontier. The Baptists joined with the Methodists and theologically liberal city folks to control the abuses.

Today, many Baptists partake of the psychoactive drug, CH3CH2OH, with its characteristic pattern of affecting the gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) receptors, to produce a depressant (neurochemical inhibitory) effect. Even though I came from the liberal ABC, my alcohol inhibitions are pretty strong, primarily due to pervasive alcoholism in the extended families of both my wife and myself.

Actually, truth be told, Baptists don't convert to Presbyterianism for the views on baptism. It's the permission to drink alcohol that draws them like moths to the light.

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Dennis E. McFadden, Ex Mainline Baptist (in Remission)
Atherton Baptist Homes, CEO
First Baptist Church of Alhambra, Member, Transformation Ministries (CA)

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