One thing some priests will claim is a complete fraud is the field of psychiatry, which is that field of science who's job it is to create as many mental health problems as the pharmaceutical industry can create a pill for.
And they are right to approach it with skepticism, even if there are people who claim that it really has helped them in some way, but I am always amazed at how they take no responsibility at all for laying the ground work that would eventually open the doors to America's legal drug pushers.
How is Christianity partially responsible for the opiod addiction in America?
Well, in part, by convincing everyone on the planet that they are flawed and need to be cured, that they are imperfect and need to improve, by telling them they are broken and need to be fixed.
This not only convinces a person to become dependent upon someone who can cure them, or save their soul, as it were, but likewise creates a permanent state of victim hood in the person's mind, and then convinces them this is a virtue when practiced by them, but a vice when practiced by anyone else.
You see this when the Christian takes offense at someone who disrespects their "beliefs," but doesn't understand how they are in anyway responsible for when someone else feels the same way toward them.
But this does not mean that Christianity is alone responsible for people's dependency on psychiatrists, who are to the study of the mind in general what theologians are to the study of a "God" that may exist no where but in the human mind alone. It is also the result of a culture that wants solutions with all the convenience of fast food and instant coffee.
In a society where providing ever more instant solutions to problems that almost always need more time to fix than how long it takes to swallow a pill, one where a pill bottle is to our own inner demons what a television is to a room full of children hopped up on sugar and caffeine, and where slow cooking is replaced with all the expediency of a microwave, starting with the belief that we are sinners who need to be saved is simply the seed that is fostered by our desire for ever more instant solutions we face, and every desire that advertisers of every degree and stripe can cultivate.
It just never occurs to such people, it seems, just how much our desire for instant solutions is actually the mother of all our current problems.
And they are right to approach it with skepticism, even if there are people who claim that it really has helped them in some way, but I am always amazed at how they take no responsibility at all for laying the ground work that would eventually open the doors to America's legal drug pushers.
How is Christianity partially responsible for the opiod addiction in America?
Well, in part, by convincing everyone on the planet that they are flawed and need to be cured, that they are imperfect and need to improve, by telling them they are broken and need to be fixed.
This not only convinces a person to become dependent upon someone who can cure them, or save their soul, as it were, but likewise creates a permanent state of victim hood in the person's mind, and then convinces them this is a virtue when practiced by them, but a vice when practiced by anyone else.
You see this when the Christian takes offense at someone who disrespects their "beliefs," but doesn't understand how they are in anyway responsible for when someone else feels the same way toward them.
But this does not mean that Christianity is alone responsible for people's dependency on psychiatrists, who are to the study of the mind in general what theologians are to the study of a "God" that may exist no where but in the human mind alone. It is also the result of a culture that wants solutions with all the convenience of fast food and instant coffee.
In a society where providing ever more instant solutions to problems that almost always need more time to fix than how long it takes to swallow a pill, one where a pill bottle is to our own inner demons what a television is to a room full of children hopped up on sugar and caffeine, and where slow cooking is replaced with all the expediency of a microwave, starting with the belief that we are sinners who need to be saved is simply the seed that is fostered by our desire for ever more instant solutions we face, and every desire that advertisers of every degree and stripe can cultivate.
It just never occurs to such people, it seems, just how much our desire for instant solutions is actually the mother of all our current problems.
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