Is Christianity a form of mental disorder? (page 5)

Narkissos

Once Christians were proud to look insane.

I was at a church in Port Glasgow on Sunday night that's affiliated with Teen Challenge, a Christian outreach aimed at helping people with addictions. The church was packed, but most of those there weren't Christians; they were down-and-outs, prostitutes, addicts; people in the worst straits imaginable. We sang songs, a few people told their testimony of how their life had been cleaned up and then at the end massive boxes of food; bread, cakes, tinned goods etc, were brought out and those who needed it were able to take what they wanted.

Each Friday night throughout Glasgow and the surrounding area buses arrive with hot tea, coffee, soup, sandwiches on-board, manned by Christians who want to feed the hungry sleeping rough in the city. There's no evangelising. They just want to make a difference. Some of my closest friends work on these buses and they are the most sincere, kind people you could ever meet.

I fully recognise the appalling crap done in the name of Christ, the nutters who let children die rather than go to a hospital because they want God to heal their child, people who blow up abortion clinics and similar. It makes me sick to my stomach. But I don't think the minority of nut-job so-called Christians take away from the majority of Christians who genuinely want to make a difference in the world, whether it's through feeding the homeless, building schools in Africa or knocking doors with a Christian Aid collection tin.

John Doe

Password, if a child molestor feeds and clothes the homeless, does he not have a mental disorder?

passwordprotected

Child molestation is a crime resulting from a mental disorder.

John Doe

You didn't answer my question.

passwordprotected

Yes, he has a mental disorder.

John Doe

Yes, he has a mental disorder.

So then, would you agree that a person's good works or lack thereof has no bearing on the discussion of mental disorders?

passwordprotected

Yes, I would agree. I'll happily retract my previous statements.

villabolo

(As I take my gloves off) Jesus cursed a fig tree for not having fruit out of season (Mark 11:12-14).

Jesus cursed entire towns for not believing in his miracles (Matthew 11:20-24) condemning them as worse than Sodomites. If he truly had the ability to read peoples hearts he should have known that, in spite of the genuiness of his miracles, these people had the moral right to be skeptical. First, magicians were very common throughout the Roman empire. Second, as he himself forewarned, false prophets would be performing miracles and great signs in order to deceive the people. So why should the inhabitants of those towns he vilified not have sincere doubts about a stranger in their midst?

For every "good" thing you can find about Jesus there are nasty and absurd things that could be found about him which brings to question his sanity.

As far as all the good works some Christians perform that's fine with me but don't tell me that other delusional Christians, the "nutters", are an isolated tiny minority. Those who spout off fox news and evangelical programing delusions are a substantial minority. They may be outnumbered by moderates and liberal Christians, who ignore their Bibles, but that does not make us safe.

villabolo

PSacramento

Villabolo,

You weren't there, you didn't see how arrogant and unrighteous that Fig tree was !!

It desereved to be cursed !!

LMAO !!

That fig tree incident is one of the funniest things I have read, everytime I read it I can't help but laugh !!

Is Christianity a form of mental disorder?

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