First and foremost, I am autistic so sorry in advance if I am blunt but I’ve been noticing something in the spiritual community for awhile that doesn’t seem to make sense.

I started down a spiritual path years ago. I’ve had some powerful experiences and met some people with magical abilities and learned lots. I have met people who have dropped day jobs to create spiritual events/concepts/ideas for a living which is cool.

Background - I think religion is a hoax and control grab and I still haven’t decided whether or not all these religious icons are actually real people or more propaganda for control. That being said, my question is - I’ve noticed this concept for awhile in various books, across different platforms, events, people, and locations - all of these spiritual concepts talk about how awful alcohol is and how it lowers vibrations/magic/etc. Why does spirituality see to be so against alcohol but “wine is fine since Jesus drank it.”

Why do so many spiritual concepts justify treating wine as an exception to alcohol and undoing all the hard work they have just completed? I have spiritual friends who also partake in this attitude of alcohol being detrimental but wanting to drink wine to relax. It is maddening and hypocritical. I also quit alcohol in 2017 and only intake spiritual and mindfulness pages on the internet or in books and no matter where I go wine always comes up as an exception and am encouraged to partake.

Again, I am autistic, but I feel like I’m missing something other than people using an imaginary person doing an imaginary action to justify drinking alcohol they seem to be unable to go without. Alcohol is alcohol?

What am I not seeing? Thanks Reddit.