The Bible says women are supposed to be sober. “That means get off the drugs. You say, ‘Well, nobody in our church is smoking pot.’ Well, what about all the other drugs? What about all the other mind-altering drugs that you’re on for your [big quote fingers] ‘depression’? For your ‘anxiety’?— No Christian ought to be on psychiatric meds, period.
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"The Bible says women are supposed to be sober."
In fundieland any medical procedure more advanced than bloodletting or leeches is the devil's work.
You're practically screaming that sound mental health is a dire threat to religious dogma.
So do you advocate embracing the approach of a mental breakdown as part of the Lord's plan to make you the next Job or just excommunicating the mentally unwell from the ranks of Christianity the moment they get the help they need?
@ Reynardine:
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No Christian ought to be on psychiatric meds, period ?
Don't say it, don't say it....
Ok.
Imagine being in high school, on a trip to Quebec, and just generally having a good time.
Now imagine that being ruined by waking up every night with a panic attack.
It's not fun, buddy. Anxiety meds work.
No Christian ought to be on psychiatric meds, period
I expect that would thin the herd of Christians considerably.
You remind me of Tom Cruise berating Brook Shields for being on anti-depressants.
Without my drugs for my severe clinical depression I might have to relieve that depression by beating your lying, ignorant head into the pavement. Go suck rocks, big, sharp, pointy rocks, you a$$hole.
I've said it before, there is nothing more dangerous than an untreated psychotic in a Christian church. Poor bastard not only will never get the help he or she desperately needs, but the nonsense will drive them further over the edge.
you should join Scientology, you'd fit right in, with the insanity, mind-control, and anti-psychiatrist nonsense.
A. Why is it that only women should be "sober"?
Wait a minute, isn't that a Scientologist doctrine? I'm pretty sure that Jesus wouldn't care if you took psychiatric meds. Do you need people to be off their meds to get your monthly quota a demonic possessions, angel sightings, Jesus on toast, etc.?
"Not that which goes into the mouth defiles a man; but that which comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man." Matthew 15:11, KJB
There are plenty of other, better reasons why this is such horseshit, but it's always fun when you can turn these people's own religion against them.
"No Christian ought to be on psychiatric meds, period."
Theres a giant man with a long white beard who lives on clouds and sends tornados to Kansas because porn is filmed in LA?
Psychiatric meds were made for christians, period.
This tells you something about certain conservatives and "crazy people." Pastor Steven Anderson feels that the problem of mass shootings has nothing to do with guns - in fact, he believes the government set up Lanza and carried out the mass murder at Sandy Hook. This quote exposes what conservative fretting about "gun nuts" is all about: a diversionary tactic to keep the gummint away from the guns they idolize. As for the mentally ill, they couldn't give a fuck about them.
Actually, I think many more Christians need to be on psychiatric meds...
And prayer without meds worked so well for Andrea Yates.
Well, nobody in our church is smoking pot.’ Well, what about all the other drugs? What about all the other mind-altering drugs that you’re on for your [big quote fingers] depression’? For your anxiety’?
No Christian ought to be on psychiatric meds, period."
So why was one of your kind - Ted Faggard - spending good money on crystal meth, if he never intended to use it in the first place?
Was he [big quote fingers] "depressed"? "Anxious"?
No Christian has the right to even think about being a hypocrite. Period.
This explains a lot about his wife. She is so angry, bitter and spiteful and that makes sense now. She births a new child every 18 months or so, home schools, cooks, cleans, gardens, cans, does every single thing around the house without any assistance, often while hugely pregnant, and she can't take any medication?
Really, I'm just sad now.
I always take medical advice from a pastor seriously. Then I laugh at it; show it to everyone I know so they can laugh at it; then I ignore it.
I don't take any mind altering drugs-just OTC pain killers.
Hahaha! Lemme think here, how many times have I been to mass sober since I turned nineteen?
Zero plus zero, carry the zero... that's... hm, still zero.
....but it's ok for men to be "high" on psychiatric meds?
Well, then I guess that I (and the rest of the world that has to deal with me) got lucky on that one. You don't want to see me without my meds.
Good luck with lawsiots about faitlful who were off meds and who killed themselves or commited murder.
After pushing young gays to commit suicide, they want the depressed and anxious to kill themselves while considering suicide as a sin and suicided as bound to hell.
You should, if you want to protect life, incite people to take meds so as to raise their quality of life and impede murders and suicides.
@ JeanP: The BS about suicides being automatically damned to hell is a great big hot button for me because my stepfather (who felt like my birth father) committed suicide and it makes me mad that people would pass judgment like that...you're not God, so STFU!
@VioletBeauregarde
I don't consider suicided persons as bound to Hell -in fact I don't believe in a god-, I was simply quoting the ideas of the fundamentalist friends of Rev. Anderson.
Sorry if I have badly redacted the message you're reponding.
Screw medication, Christians should kill themselves from the unbearable weight of depression. Oh wait, that's a sin. Just live in that feeling, then. Praise 'da LAWD!
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