Re: Unity Assumed…
by
The Stranger
07/05/2008, 3:17 PM
Oh my well, there you go. Let’s discuss 21st Century American Christianity’s peculiar relationship with those of us with mental illness. It is interesting. In fact, it’s troublesome. Why won’t evangelicals come into the wards and cast out demons? Have you less faith? Have you less power? Will you stand before Jesus one day and assert, “Lord, we left the mentally ill to drugs because we knew you couldn’t handle it.” Ask you yourself, if we can medicate to sanity, then what do we need Christ for; the light work? It has always amazed me how evangelicals will kick Darwin all around the school yard like bullies, when he is harmless, yet, you will bow down before Sigmund Freud who you appear to be afraid of and who has done more damage to the prestige of the church than Darwin ever wanted to do. To give Christianity its due, with drug addiction, alcoholism, sexual addiction, failing marriages, your religion is tops, excellent; replete with endless proven cases of success. With full blown organic schizophrenia? No luck; not even an effort until, and only until, the drugs come in. Why is this so? Laugh this off if you want, but I assure you, people see this failure, read the New Testament, and ponder. You will say, “The world has changed.” Really? How much as it changed? Who told you to stop casting out demons? Who gave you permission to champion drugs over spiritual warfare? Jesus; or Freud, or Jung? So here is the question: what do you do with the mentally ill? We await an answer. Would Jesus abandon us as too hard to handle? Behold the inconvenient truth of the mentally ill amongst you.