I quoted so much in this thread!
Once again and again and again..
What I am saying is: Walt Disneyworld is a place that was built with the kids in mind. Anyone who equates children with alcohol has a screw loose! Also I am a whole hearted believer in parents taking full responsibility for their kids. My entire adult life has been wholely devoted to help repairing the lives of children who's parents didnt give a flip, and trying to make up the difference so they would have a chance. And most of the kids I try to intervene for and gift a shot at life are in that position because their mom and dad couldnt put the bottle down.
I know you are probably gone now having stirred up a hornets nest. Real nice. Awesome example of faith you displayed in this thread.
Since we are apparently whipping out our moral sticks and correlating helping others with ability to drink let me throw something out there that will blow your mind:
I drink occasionally and we adopted a boy that was beat by an alcoholic illegal immigrant that his mother chose over her biological family.
In fact one of the main things we are teaching our 12 year old son is how to appropriately drink alcohol, lest he think that the only example he was brought up with be the only way to imbide.
I have taken the time to explain that you can drink a beverage with alcohol and first and foremost not get drunk, but to enjoy the craftmanship of the libation. Both my wife an myself occasionally have a beer or wine with dinner and we always take the time to comment on the selection for the evening and whether we would choose it again.
So rather than bury his head in the sand and hope he doesn't ever drink, we felt it would be most appropriate to demonstrate responsible drinking to counter the example he was set.
He has gone from warily looking at beer as an object of fear to understanding on at least an acedemic level the time and effort that goes into making a good brew (not the swill of the common man that comes in a can :animwink
Proverbs 20:1 "Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise"......God
Proverbs 23:32 "At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder".......God
Argue with him.
You have probably done more to hurt the prolification of the Message in this thread with statements like these than you could ever realize.
I'm at a loss of what to say after that.