Pentecostals hating on Catholics for drinking

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My Pentecostal co-workers are arguing with me about how Catholics are drunks and the most horrible thing is priests drinking and that Catholics drink for EVERY reason they can think of. How do I respond to this? I know that drinking is not evil - it’s excessive drinking is the problem.
 
Tell them that they are accusing Jesus if being a sinner, which is infinitely worse than having a couple of drinks
 
RHisComingHome said:
My Pentecostal co-workers are arguing with me about how Catholics are drunks and the most horrible thing is priests drinking and that Catholics drink for EVERY reason they can think of. How do I respond to this? I know that drinking is not evil - it’s excessive drinking is the problem.
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Gluttony is as bad as drunkenness. If you shouldn’t drink because some people get drunk, then you shouldn’t eat because some people get fat. :rolleyes:
Are any of these Pentecostals overweight?

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Jesus was accused of being a glutton and a drunkard in His time.
 
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Gluttony is as bad as drunkenness. If you shouldn’t drink because some people get drunk, then you shouldn’t eat because some people get fat. :rolleyes:
Are any of these Pentecostals overweight?

Jon
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Funny that you mention that. I’ve had HUGE arguments that owning an all you can eat buffet is as bad as owning a bar. They won’t drink, but see some of them hit the line at the buffet
 
If these responses don’t work, ask them which is worse, drinking, or patronizing hookers.

It was Jimmy Swaggart that got caught with Hookers in a hotel. He is/was a Pentacostal minister.

news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/21/newsid_2565000/2565197.stm

Then of course there is Jim Bakker of PTL, he is/was a Pentacostal minister, and he got caught up in sexual misconduct, and embezzelment.

Not trying to be mean here, but I’ll take a hangover over a sexually transmitted disease anytime.
 
Just on a side note, you could point out to them that not all Catholic’s drink, and that some Pentacostals do. (I’ve known many people of all sorts of differing beliefs who do things privately at home that they would never do in front of their fellow believers.)
Saying one thing and doing another seems to be pretty universal too.
 
RHisComingHome said:
My Pentecostal co-workers are arguing with me about how Catholics are drunks and the most horrible thing is priests drinking and that Catholics drink for EVERY reason they can think of. How do I respond to this? I know that drinking is not evil - it’s excessive drinking is the problem.
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Tell them that from now on every time they bring this subject up you are going to go to the bar that very night. They will then feel it’s their calling to abstain from attacking you concerning alcohol or, if they continue to bring it up, you can always start to blame them for your drinking because they refused to stop talking about it. 👍 😃
 
:rolleyes: I am thinking that not everyone who enters a bar or liquor store is Catholic.
 
In Alabama we have a couple of related Jokes

How can you tell two Baptists in a liquor store?
They don’t speak to each other

If you have a lot of beer, invite one Baptist fishing. If you don’t have enough, invite two.
 
RHisComingHome said:
My Pentecostal co-workers are arguing with me about how Catholics are drunks and the most horrible thing is priests drinking and that Catholics drink for EVERY reason they can think of. How do I respond to this? I know that drinking is not evil - it’s excessive drinking is the problem.
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It really doesn’t warrant a response. The ignorance in this statement is despicable. Alcohol is not forbidden in Scripture, only excessiveness is and I know quite a few Pentecostals who were and still could be very excessive drinkers.
 
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