Therapy and Christianity are at odds with one-another. There are Christian therapists....but that is an oxymoron...they are two completely different views.
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"There are Christian therapists....but that is an oxymoron...they are two completely different views."
True, therapy sometimes works, but christianity always fails.
My friend's ex-husband dragged her to a Christian marriage counselor. The counselor spent the sessions lecturing her on how she needed to be submissive and obey her husband and give up her rebellion.
Oh, did you mean real therapy?
Yes. Therapy encourages someone to better themselves. Christianity makes sure that it's followers know they are worthless and powerless, unless they follow the path they lay out for them, and that only Jesus/God can solve their problems for them. Of course, if Jesus/God fail to come to their aid, they obviously weren't righteous enough, and aren't true believers anyways.
My therapist is a Christian. In fact, the entire building is Christian-based -- and they're all decent, intelligent, kind people. Why can't you be more like them?
Actually, they're talking about a good friend of us, do you remember that woman who cried over her son, who commited suicide, because she couldn't accept he was gay?. I think that their motto is, "If they don't tell you what you want to hear, they're not Christian"
Let's see:
Therapist = people can change for the better if there's sufficient impetus.
Christian = you're all damned to hell for all eternity if you don't believe exactly the same things that I do.
You're right, the two ARE completely different views.
I thought lobotomy, virtual and otherwise, was christian therapy.
Otherwise...oxymoron city.
Well, maybe s/he has a point.
Psychotherapists treat severe mental illness, but TRUE CHRISTIANS believe that they should be exorcising demons instead.
Child therapists try to get children to feel better about themselves in order to behave, while TRUE CHRISTIANS would be applying the rod to get the same results or stoning the obstinate children to death if they failed.
Therapists dealing with the abused will try to make them know that it isn't their fault and their abuser is wrong while TRUE CHRISTIANS will let battered wives know they shouldn't be so uppity and should let their husband run everything, and abused children know they should respect their parents.
Physical therapists try to get the severely injured to be able to perform small tasks over time in order to gradually restore their ability to perform a larger physical task, while TRUE CHRISTIANS would only need to lay on hands and pray very hard to get the same result.
And, finally, most therapists will dare to suggest that a person seeing and hearing phantasmagorical things that no-one else sees is having a hallucination, while TRUE CHRISTIANS know that they are communicating with JEEBUS HIMSELF! (Note: hallucinations that support other religions don't count; those ones really are hallucinations).
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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