[Ezekiel Bathfire]

De:12:1: These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.

De:12:2: Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:

De:12:3: And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.

De:12:4: Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God.

[WWJDnow]

Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go.

Jeremaiah 10:2-5

[MitzaLizalor]

Another cause for concern, the food and drinks commonly served.

PROVERBS 23:29-34 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things. Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.

Not only soaked into Christmas cakes and puddings but served, blatantly defying God, in fancy glasses and even mixed together (sometimes with spices) causing woe, sorrow, contentions, babbling, wounds and redness of the eye. Quite apart from God's explicit prohibition, are those things any way to celebrate Christ's birthday? There are a number of wines fitting the description in proverbs.

Raspberry LIQUEUR	Red ABSINTHE	Blood orange CURAÇAO	Chilli VODKA	Sloe GIN
FRENCH	SPANISH	DUTCH	SCOTTISH	TASMANIAN

(brand names redacted) It's difficult to decide which of those heathen places is the most repugnant but easy to determine the blasphemous nature of their wines. Whether marketed as gins, vodkas, absinthes or liqueurs, the redness of the beverage contrasts with the greenness of holly and mistletoe—not to mention the idolatrous tree—and unspeakable shenanigans carried out in their vicinity if not directly underneath in the case of mistletoe.

Tasmanians probably think this a a hoot, French and Spanish maniacs will start waving their arms around and gabbling, the Dutch and the Scots may have a protestant heritage and certainly don't gabble but there it is: bright red liquor concocted in defiance of Scripture: their Christmases are celebrations of everything The Bible condemns. I've seen it. It's even worse than you'd imagine.