While I am not a medical doctor or psychologist, I know that the weight of sin which has not been confessed and dealt with in someone's life can also cause depression. I also know that being without the Lord in your life will cause depression. In fact, one of the jobs of the Holy Spirit is to be an encourager. While a Christian can be discouraged and depressed, it is far more likely to see depression in the unsaved.
So, what is your walk with the Lord like? Specifically, are you saved? Was there a time in your life when you realized that you needed the Lord in your life, when you realized that without the Lord, you would go to hell? Was there a time when you gave your life completely over to the Lord and surrendered to Him and His will? I am not asking if you have been baptized or if you do good things, I am asking if you have given your life to the Lord and asked Him to save you.
If you are saved, what is your walk with the Lord like? How much time do you spend reading the Bible and praying?
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While a Christian can be discouraged and depressed, it is far more likely to see depression in the unsaved. As far as I know, it's rather the other way around. As it is with divorce rates and crime rates.
Was there a time in your life when you realized that you needed the Lord in your life, when you realized that without the Lord, you would go to hell?
The most beautiful, happiest person I know is a devout atheist. I'd liek you to take one look at her and call her "depressed," "heartless," a "baby-killer," any of those things you so like to insinuate.
You are, however, in need of a medical doctor or psychologist, I think.
I know that the weight of sin which has not been confessed and dealt with in someone's life can also cause depression. I also know that being without the Lord in your life will cause depression.
Right, because we're the ones who belive that humanity is basically sinful and evil, and that just breathing pisses Skydaddy off to no end.
Wow, I never realized it before, but I must be depressed because of my Godless life! I mean, I never even knew I was depressed until now!
How much time do you spend reading the Bible and praying?
When I was growing up, I exhibited various signs of depression, but my mother and step-father never took me to a psychologist or psychiatrist. They prayed about it and thought it was just normal teenage angst.
How much time do you spend reading the Bible and praying?Enough to repel me from it's core message of worthlessness.
Echoing others here, I was severely depressed and even, many years ago, exhibiting suicidal tendencies.
Although my life isn't perfect, it's a helluva lot better then the chaos in my brain from trying to reconcile the blatant hatred and contridictions of the bible. X-tianity created a war inside me head where nobody was winning.
I see life through a brand-new pair of sunglasses, instead of the Crisco smeared lenses of religion.
I think it's far more likely that the unsaved will admit they have a problem and seek appropriate treatments than that the "saved" will do so. My "saved" sister treats her depression with Jesus... and then medications as Jesus didn't seem to be enough.
Don´t say that you´re not an expert, it sticks out a mile. And ask any real professional and they will tell you what commons sense says, that nobody can be depressed for not matching the expectation of a being they don´t believe in.
This is why I'm a bit reluctant to tell my mother I'm an atheist. I'm on antidepressants and she knows my depression is legitimate, but I'm afraid she'll start insisting I go to church with her.
Don't atheists, in general, have fewer instances of depression than Christians?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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