You don't get to talk about your loyalty to "traditional Christianity" and then simultaneously reject it and say you don't care about it at the same time. That's talking out of both sides of the mouth.
Traditional Christianity is the Christianity of the last two thousand years--the Christianity of the Apostles, the Church Fathers, the Scholastics, the Protestant Reformers, and so forth. It covers Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism, and Protestantism.
Traditional Christianity--the religion of the New Testament--has never taught Teetotalism. Christianity has cautioned against excess and encouraged the mortification of the flesh through self-discipline; which is why fasting, and various forms of self-denial exist within Christianity in order to teach one to curb the appetites.
But one will only care about what traditional Christianity is if they care about the history of the Christian Church and bother to concern themselves with what has been taught and confessed since the beginning.
Which is why we Lutherans, the original Sola Scriptura people, don't play the game of re-inventing Christianity through personal, uninformed opinion or by playing fast and loose with Scripture. But rather remain confessionalists, we have what is known as the Book of Concord, a collection of creeds and confessions that includes the three Historic Creeds--the Nicene Creed, the Apostles' Creed, and the Athanasian Creed--as well as our own distinctive Lutheran confessions, the most important being the Augsburg Confession. By our confession we remain faithful to the Word of God--Holy Scripture--and confess the historic Christian faith as it has been taught, confessed, and believed for these last two thousand years.
Scripture Alone doesn't mean anything unless one is actually believing and confessing what the Scriptures say and mean. The Creeds and Confessions of the Christian Church throughout history ensures that we remain faithful to the pure, holy, inspired, unfailing Word of Holy Scripture.
-CryptoLutheran
