Catholic laity that are angered by a priest cannot do anything about that anger without causing themselves more trouble, which is a definite cause of frustration. Such people are more liable to take that anger out on the first person they can. When such anger is expressed in public, other people can see how unjust it is.

It would seem that the Eucharist is just a wafer, considering it has no power to stop priests that consume it from molesting children. It apparently has no power to stop people from making unchristian death threats. Such Catholics themselves have no reverence for the Eucharist, so it is hypocritical that the same people would be outraged at someone else seemingly not showing reverence. It seems that the only people that have power over God are the hypocrites. As soon as God brings people to church, the hypocrites drive them back out or turn them into atheists. No one does more harm to the Catholic Church than Catholics.

It seems also that some people believe in their concepts of God rather than in God. If God is the object of faith, rather than concepts, then these people really do not even have faith. Some people proclaim to have faith when actually it is just their opinion that they have faith, as they do not give any evidence of having faith.

Even philosophically some people contradict themselves concerning their supposed faith. It does not follow that if one believed God is Love one would then act on that belief by making death threats. People proclaim that God is all-powerful and then proceed to kill the supposed enemies of God. They have no understanding of the concept all-powerful. If God were all-powerful, God would need no help in killing anyone. Apparently God is not all-powerful enough for some people.

If God has nothing to do with killing, one has to wonder what relation to the military God has. The slogan “for God and country” seems to indicate that God needs to be defended by us, so we could not really think that God is all-powerful. The military seems to use belief in God, Christianity in particular, merely for the sake of discipline and control. To disobey an order would be to disobey God, even if the order were contrary to the practice of Christian faith.

We searched high and low for a brewhaus to serve pilsner properly, with a very slow pour to properly develop the head. We found some good beer but none served in the traditional style. But we passed by Stuttgart, visiting Munich, Rudesheim, Trier, Dusseldorf, Mainz, Cologne, and Bamberg instead. I guess that was a mistake.

We were told that many traditional brewing and drinking practices were going out of style in Germany. Some brewers are now adding fruit to their beer–sacrilegisch!

It may be impossible not to drink too much from time to time, but it would always seem possible not to get drunk. People drink too much while under the influence, while the drunk decides to get drunk before having had anything to drink.

It would also seem that one could drink something like beer all day without having too much to drink. It depends on how one drinks. One can drink everyday without being an alcoholic. I would think that one is alcoholic according to how unreasonable they are to others because of their drinking. Drinking can be conducive to being reasonable and it can also be conducive to be unreasonable. It seems to me, a gross generality, that Americans bring too much anger to their drinking. Drinking can calm us and make us less prone to anger or it can incite anger by removing inhibitions to anger.

I like Sartre, whether I agree with him or not, simply because of his visits to the cafe in Paris, which indicates how one’s drink can influence one’s philosophy.