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Today's top comes from Pastor Ben Stewart.

Well, in the 1920s, America had a drinking problem.

Daniel Crenshaw wrote a book about it called Last Call, The Rise and Fall of Prohibition.

And he started the book by saying, America has been a wash and drink from its start.

For context, in 1830, American adults per capita drank seven gallons of pure alcohol per year.

If you're trying to get your head around that, that's three times what we drink today.

In 1850, Americans consumed 36 million gallons of beer.

By 1890, it had gone up to 855 million gallons of beer.

Abraham Lincoln said of alcohol, it commonly enters into the first drought of an infant

and the last thoughts of a dying man.

He called it the devastator.

Benjamin Franklin recorded 228 synonyms for drunk.

That's how drunk America was.

Women's suffrage launched in many ways because women saw the devastation that this was bringing into their homes and into their families.

And they said, we need to see the cultural tide change.

And so, in the 1920s, we as a country, we made a decision to enact prohibition, to prohibit the sale and distribution of alcohol.

External laws to shut down this behavior that was destructive to our society.

And many of you know, we widely consider it to not have been particularly successful.

In some ways it was, America did drink less.

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