In his otherwise excellent commentary on the Book of Proverbs, entitled "Be Skillful", the famed Bible teacher devotes a chapter to miscellaneous topics covered in that book of the Bible. Wiersbe spends three and a half pages talking about alcohol, hemming and hawing till he basically concludes that people like himself and his wife who don't drink are better than Christians who do.
Then Wiersbe devotes two pages each to the sins of disrespect, illusion and greed, and less than one page to the sin of pride. Something is screwed up somewhere!
Also, don't those other sins fuel the sin of drunkenness?
Disrespect
For example, if you decide to drink a substantial amount, even though you have to go to work the next morning, you don't respect your co-workers who are going to then have to work with someone who is slowing things down and not performing their best because their hungover or even still drunk.
Illusion
There's no loser who's surer he's going to be a big man someday than the guy at the bar who's had a few. These people already want to think they're something when they're nothing, and they often need alcohol to cement their illusions.
Pride
How many people have gotten addicted to alcohol or drugs thinking, "I'm stronger than everyone else. It's not gonna wreck my body, destroy my family or ruin my career like it has for countless others."
As for greed, this isn't so much a sin committed on the part of the drinker. However, it is worth noting that, since Prohibition was repealed, the liquor industry has been monopolized. It's common knowledge that multi-national food manufacturers put chemicals in their products to make us eat more, so I think it is a possibility the multi-nationals who manufacture beer, wine and liquor are doing the same thing.
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