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Nature & Nurture #45: Dr. Edward Slingerland - The History of Alcohol

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The Relationship Between Alcohol and Religion

Is it a coincidence that we refer to hard liquors as spirits? Like, i'm wondering if the world was developed, talking about, like, you're possessed by the spirit of dionysus. Ah, that's interesting. So how about in the opposited where alcohol gets associated with religion, and like a positive way is it? I mean, so the positive ation between alcohol and religion is the form we tend to think about modern christianity,. sometimes the terms evangelicalso don't drink, but christianity and wine er like this ri it's the blood of christ.

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