Did Temperance Activists Tamper with the Bible?

During Prohibition, temperance activists hired a scholar to rewrite the Bible by removing all references to alcohol beverage.

FROM: The American Mix, 2001, 1(1), 4.

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How did Bourbon Get its Name?

Bourbon takes its name from Bourbon County in Kentucky, where it was first produced in 1789 by a Baptist minister.

FROM: Grimes, William. Straight Up or on the Rocks: A Cultural History of American Drink. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993, pp. 52-53. However, this commonly-accepted explanation is challenged by Charles K. Cowdery in How Bourbon Whiskey Really Got Its Famous Name. The Bourbon Reader, 1996, 3 (1)

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Was there beer at the first Thanksgiving?

While there wasn't any cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, or pumpkin pie to eat at the first Thanksgiving, there was beer, brandy, gin, and wine to drink.

From: The First Thanksgiving. The Community Trader, Manchester, NY, Nov.,1988; www.plimoth.org/Library/Thanksgiving/thanksgi.htm/.

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What did the Early Christian Church Say About Beer?

The early Church declared that alcohol was an inherently good gift of God to be used and enjoyed. While individuals might choose not to drink, to despise alcohol was heresy.

FROM: Austin, Gregory A. Alcohol in Western Society from Antiquity to 1800: A Chronological History. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-Clio, 1985, pp. 44 and 47-48.

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