Drinking Beer Is Tough In Today's Society

Alice Cooper once said “Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that’s a tough call. That’s real rebellion.” Alice Cooper put what every Christian struggles with all into one quote. Many events, people, or even ideas open doors for Christians to doubt and sometimes rebel against their own beliefs. The impact these doubts give Christians is something exhausting to work through on their own. I agree with Alice Cooper’s quote that being a Christian is tough, especially in today’s society. Examples being, tragedies occurring in our world today. Christian religions are blamed and the followers rebel against their beliefs. Also, how strenuous it is to speak up for our beliefs in Christianity. Lastly, the …show more content…
With the tragedies occurring in our world today, many Christian religions are blamed. Followers then rebel against their beliefs in order to fit in, and make sure they are not criticized for standing up for their beliefs. Christians are picked apart for little things, many Christians drink and supposedly we are not allowed to. So when people in society catch a Christian drinking it suddenly becomes an enormous deal. It is said in Romans 13:13 “Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immortality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealously”. This cause of judgement on Christianity affects many Christians to rebel against their beliefs to fit in with their peers. Meaning that some Christians will not drink around their friends in order to avoid judgement. Another cause of Christians rebelling against their beliefs, is due to many politicians and celebrity figureheads being Christians themselves. What they stand for or speak about the effects the name of Christianity, which gives many Christians reason to be ashamed. For example, President-elect Donald Trump, he is a Christian and many people just when you hear that Trump is a Christian makes them not like Christianity (Lodge). This in turn makes Christians deny their beliefs because they are afraid of the effects of being associated with figureheads that are not popular in the world/society. …show more content…
Too much to think about right? So if you can’t name all of the branches, how are you to possibly know all the rules, details and beliefs of each one. You can’t … and you don’t. With so many branches of Christianity, and everyone being different there are many stereotypes of being a Christian. Alice Cooper has another great quote, “When you’re a Christian, it doesn’t mean you’re going to be good; it means you’ve got a harder road to pull” (Viola). Being a Christian is no easy task and creating stereotypes does not help the problem. Popular stereotypes include Christians don’t drink, everything we say must come from the Bible, and we only care about you becoming a Christian. All of these stereotypes effect Christians deeply because we are all not the same. A Stern Baptists does not drink, however; Lutherans drink as well as Catholics. Christians are Bible thumpers, meaning we are always going to throw something about the Bible to you. This cause of stereotypes effects Christians because not every Christian is deeply rooted within the Bible. They are acquainted just not attached at the hip. Lastly, Christians only care about you becoming a Christian. This affects many Christians because honestly, some could care less about whether or not you wished to become Christian. All of these stereotypes have caused such as lack of information, this then affects real Christians to be afraid of their