Add Qur'an Contradiction: is Wine Good or Bad?

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+<br>Sura 83:22,25 Is wine good or bad? Are we forbidden on earth something that is truly good? Some Muslims attempt to explain away the discrepancy by appealing to the following passage: Save single-minded slaves of Allah; For them there is a known provision, Fruits. And they will be honoured In the Gardens of delight, On couches facing one another; A cup from a gushing spring is brought round for  [GlucoLife metabolic support](https://devcraft-dot.tech/leolachilds07/4792559/wiki/Heart-Health-Meets-Indulgence%3A-Dark-Chocolate%E2%80%99s-Surprising-Benefits) them, White,  [GlucoLife blood sugar formula](https://schreinerei-leonhardt.de/glucolife-supplement-comprehensive-overview) delicious to the drinkers, Wherein there is no headache nor are they made mad thereby. And with them are those of modest gaze, with lovely eyes, (Pure) as they were hidden eggs (of the ostrich). The heavenly wine, it is claimed, which believers will drink will not cause headaches or madness, thereby justifying Allah's decision to permit it in paradise. The main problem with citing this is that the passage nowhere identifies this drink as wine. It does not even mention either the word wine or strong drinks/intoxicants.<br>
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+<br>It simply says that believers will drink from a cup something which is white in color which does not cause headiness. If anything, one can make an argument that this drink is actually milk. After all, the Quran does [mention](https://www.ourmidland.com/search/?action=search&firstRequest=1&searchindex=solr&query=mention) the fact that believers will be given rivers of milk, and milk is indeed white: A similitude of the Garden which those who keep their duty (to Allah) are promised: Therein are rivers of water unpolluted, and rivers of milk whereof the flavour changeth not, and  [GlucoLife metabolic support](https://schreinerei-leonhardt.de/glucolife-supplement-comprehensive-overview) rivers of wine delicious to the drinkers, and rivers of clear-run honey; therein for them is every kind of fruit, with pardon from their Lord. Thus, one can legitimately say that the spring which the Quran says will not cause throbbing or intoxication are these very waters. In light of the foregoing, it seems pretty certain from the context that the drink which the Quran says doesn't cause intoxication is in fact the very flowing waters that are mentioned later on in the chapter. Moreover, one can even argue that the reason these passages emphasize that these particular drinks don't cause headiness or intoxication is to distinguish them from the wine which believers will have access to when in paradise. In other words, the qualification presupposes that these drinks are different from the wine which believers will be drinking since, unlike wine, these specific drinks don't cause madness or headaches. Putting it in another way, these texts are not identifying these drinks as wine, but are actually contrasting them to wine by highlighting the point that they don't have the common affects associated with intoxicants.<br>
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+<br>What is this post about? The list of negative effects of meat consumption is long. They range from animal suffering over global food distribution considerations to climate change and more. In this post, I want to elaborate on the problematic aspects of eating meat and show how it is possible and easy to switch diets without any loss in quality of life. TLDR; please don’t eat meat - it’s really bad for everyone. I think most people have heard that animals are held in bad conditions, that meat is less effective than other kinds of food on an energy per gram measure, that meat uses a lot of water during production, etc. However, during most of the discussions I personally had, heard or read about the topic there were astonishingly little numbers and weighings involved. To exaggerate - "you are either a Nazi for eating meat" or "you are a Nazi for taking away someone’s freedom to eat meat" is a discourse that I have witnessed way too often.<br>
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+<br>Therefore I want to focus mostly on the size of the effects w.r.t. I think the most obvious but also most impactful problem with an animal diet is the animal suffering it creates. To give a broad overview of the current state of meat consumption consider the following figures. The number of animals killed per year increases pretty drastically, the growth of chickens killed for consumption looks exponential and that for pigs linear. We obviously do not know if that will continue but we do know that consumption has not always been this high. Given that meat is a status symbol in many countries and poverty goes down this is a likely indicator for a still-growing trend. The global meat consumption is actually extremely high in objective terms. Assuming that the world has around 7 billion inhabitants this would imply that on average a person eats roughly eight chickens and a fifth of a pig per year. This average gets even bigger when considering that many countries do not consume a lot of meat either due to poverty or religious reasons, e.g. India or many African countries.<br>