Will selling beer send me to hell?

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Didn’t Benjamin Franklin say that “Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy”?
 
I was wondering if you may want to post something like this on the Non Catholic section asking the Baptists what they think. Its good to get multiple POV’s.🙂
 
Jay2 said:
In the same establishment, why not agree and put up a display rack with 6000 condoms…no cost to you, the wholesaler will take care of everything.
Maybe put the condom kiosk near the beer cooler?? Or maybe a 2nd one near your register?

You are not forcing your customers to purchase the goods you offer. You are offering goods to potential customers, trying to anticipate their needs, and expecting a profit to cover your costs incurred to market these goods.

It is up to you to decide if you can market goods that when used might result in actions contrary to your ideals of living.
You are offering products & services. It is beyond your control as to what happens to these goods when they are paid for and leave your store… and the moment the customer crosses your threshold your obligations are absolved. You offer products… Not a promise as to how they are used.

You are a businessman. This isn’t a hobby, it is the way to provide for yourself & family… but it is YOUR business. You have the power to pick & choose what items you offer. It’s a tough row to hoe…
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IMHO beer and condoms are totally two separate teachings of the Catholic Church. Drinking beer or any legal spirits is not considered sinful, however condoms is always considered sinful.

Yes, you need to ensure that you check ID’s, etc and abide in the laws of the state. Any willful violation of the laws, again IMHO, would be sinful.
 
Beer in moderation is healthy.
I once toured the medieval Cistercian abbey at Medingen in Germany where a relative is an evangelical ‘sister’. When it was Catholic and at its heydey with several hundred nuns, they consumed 800 liters of spelt (German wheat) beer a day!
It was a basic part of their nutrition. There were no potatoes, only turnips and cabbages and such.
 
As the old quote says, Beer is proof that God loves us. 🙂

You do have responsibility to look out for your fellow humans in obvious cases, like selling beer to drunk people or minors. But if you have no reasonable way to predict a consequence, it’s hardly going to be your fault if somebody does something bad long after they leave your store.

Beer Blessing
From the Rituale Romanum (no 58)

Bene dic, Domine, creaturam istam cerevisae, quam ex adipe frumenti producere dignatus es: ut sit remedium salutare humano generi: et praesta per invocationem nominis tui sancti, ut, quicumque ex ea biberint, sanitatem corporis, et animae tutelam percipiant. Per Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen

Bless, O Lord, this creature beer, that Thou hast been pleased to bring forth from the sweetness of the grain: that it might be a salutary remedy for the human race: and grant by the invocation of Thy holy name, that, whosoever drinks of it may obtain health of body and a sure safeguard for the soul. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
 
jcrconst1 said:
If i own a covinience store and sell beer, and somebody buys some to abuse it will I go to hell.
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if you sell it to someone underage or someone who is drunk you may very well go to jail.

look around your store, there are dozens of products that people can use either for good purposes, or that can be abused. You are not morally culpable for their choices or behavior unless you know you are directly contributing, such as above.

no one goes to hell for doing any immoral act, by the way, the only way to get to hell is to die in a state of obdurate unrepentent mortal sin.
 
To answer the question, you can bet on it buddy…just kidding. If you go to hell for that, then I’ll be down there with you because I’ve done worse.
 
This question is amusing to me since a Catholic deacon in my area, who now runs a parish, is a beer distributor.
Is drinking wrong? Christ passed out wine at the last supper. And in fact the Jews in the Old Testament period had wine with their daily meals and in the Old Testament wine is considered a blessing from God. In fact too Saint Paul advised drinking a little wine since it can be good for your health.
If selling beer was sinful because it can be abused, selling automobiles because some people have serious accidents or selling kitchen knives because by intent or by accident they have caused serious harm would be sinful too.
 
Selling beer will not get you sent you to Hell.

“Spilling” beer will. 😃
 
I recomend reading up on formal vs. material cooperation. The Church does not teach that alcohol or the use of alcohol in and of itself is evil (keep in mind that I am a recovering alcoholic). What the church teaches is that the abuse of alcohol is a sin because it jeapordizes those qualities (i.e. rational thought) that make us “created in the image of God”.
 
jcrconst1 said:
If i own a covinience store and sell beer, and somebody buys some to abuse it will I go to hell.
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No, but you might want to turn down the temperature in your cooler so that your beer is ice cold.

Seriously, my refrigerator is colder than most store beer coolers.
 
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