In 1926 two of its officers reaffirmed that support in testimony before the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States Senate. …movements for state and local prohibition arose out of the intensive religious revivalism of the 1820s and ’30s, which stimulated movements toward perfectionism in human beings, including temperance and the abolition of slavery.
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Religion and Prohibition During Prohibition there were exemptions for sacramental wine and other religious uses of alcohol.
The root of such oversimplified thinking stems from the prohibition movement itself, which wore the mantle of religion proudly.
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In 1926 two of its officers reaffirmed that support in testimony before the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States Senate.
Since my research focuses on Texas, Italians and Irish (though present) were smaller groups and therefore not the subject of most anti-Catholicism and anti-foreign sentiment; Germans and Mexicans were.
Liquor was seen as something that destroys the values of the church and ultimately a sin.
They claimed that people of good faith could only stand on one side of a divisive cultural issue and so constructed a warfare approach to political engagement in which the world divided into two camps: the faithful and the infidels.Dry figures who encouraged this dichotomizing message, such as Billy Sunday and J. Frank Norris, attract historical attention for the same reason they attracted media attention in their day: their statements of calculated outrage were intensely interesting and entertaining for friend and foe alike. - Read the passage from American Yawp found here.
Rush's writing reflected the changing attitudes towards distilled alcohol at the time, especially among the US medical community.
Religious anti-prohibitionists, however, tended to exercise more nuance towards the question of alcohol and, like Lutherans and Episcopalians in U.S. history more generally, seem simply too boring for most historians to bother studying them.
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While some denominations – particularly Catholic, Jewish, Episcopalian, and Lutheran groups – generally refrained from prohibition activism and a few of their clergy actively opposed it, no distinctively religious anti-prohibition groups existed on anywhere near the scale of groups such as the WCTU and ASL.
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If religious people spanned the entire spectrum of views on prohibition back then, shouldn’t we expect people of faith to take on the full array of positions on all manner of political issues today? The movement combined a concern for general social ills with religious sentiment and practical health considerations in a way that was appealing to …
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The earliest bootleggers began smuggling foreign-made commercial liquor into the United States from across the Canadian and Mexican borders and along the seacoasts from ships under foreign registry.
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Laments of political unfaithfulness from co-religionists on the alcohol issue ring out from various Methodist and Baptist sources over the decades, indicating that organizational agreement on the clerical level did not always translate into as many supporters on the parishioner level as one might expect.
Likewise Carrie Nation felt that God had audibly instructed her to begin her hatchet-wielding and rock-throwing campaign against saloons in Kansas and beyond.
Religion and the Prohibition One of the largest contributors to the national fight for Prohibition was the religious movement which pointed out the moral "ills" associated with alcohol consumption.
When a shocking number of biblical scholars held to the “two-wine thesis,” which improbably held that all the Bible’s positive references to wine indicated alcohol-free grape juice while all the bad references signified the alcoholic beverage, one Edward R. Emerson had published in 1902 A Lay Thesis on Bible Wines, an erudite challenge to the popular “two-wine” theory. Prohibition, Religious Freedom, and Human Rights: Regulating Traditional Drug Use. (gross) Even the leading fundamentalist intellectual, J. Gresham Machen, thought smoking and drinking perfectly acceptable behaviors and was censured by his liberal colleagues at Princeton Seminary in the 1920s ostensibly for his permissive stance to tobacco and alcohol.
The impact of religious convictions and practices upon prohibition extended beyond clerical leaders or functionaries of explicitly religious organizations.
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