Posted on 08/09/2020 6:10:40 AM PDT by Kaslin
In the space of what feels like a breath, we went from the Greatest Generation to the legalization of infanticide, from a country with a singular and evolved moral code to the ripping down of the Ten Commandments in courtrooms across the country, from a rational acknowledgment of natural gender to drag-queen story hour at the public library.
How in the world did this happen?
I’m saddened to say that some of the biggest players in this cultural catastrophe have been psychotherapists.
My generation was bottle fed with the nectar of psychotherapy and a philosophy that presented itself as secular wisdom but was really the religion of “Whatever.” Anyone who was anyone had heard the news: Nietzsche was right, God was dead and the religions that preached that ancient moral code were also dead, or worse, passé. And if God was dead or uninvolved and unimportant, why pay Him any mind? Why deny yourself anything? Why wait for anything? Why condemn yourself for anything?
C.S. Lewis warned us in 1940. Dostoyevsky warned us before that in 1880 with The Brothers Karamazov. (“Without God, anything is permitted.”) They saw the dark red glow of modernity on the horizon. They knew what was coming. And it did. With the likes of Carl Rogers’ Unconditional Positive Regard and the Humanistic Psychology of Abraham Maslow, God was quietly but deftly usurped by an addled old man who dementedly (but kindly, as Lewis imagines it) pats us all on the head mumbling, “So long as you’re happy.”
According to Christian Smith at UNC, Chapel Hill, what I call the religion of “Whatever,” he calls “Moralistic Therapeutic Deism.” He sums up this new theology in three points:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Therapist = The Rapist
I’m saddened to say that some of the biggest players in this cultural catastrophe have been psychotherapists.
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1. God is Nice.
2. The goal of life is to be happy and nice and fair.
3. People who are nice go to heaven.
The first point sounds like the modern day Catholic Church. They seem to have forgotten Satan, and the God of the Old Testament.
The second point sounds like Joel Osteen's preachings, to which he would add a 4th bullet point - God is gonna make you RICH!
We all witnessed the destruction of faith ... and innocence ... when the Catholic Church deferred to therapists instead of the Council of Nicea to decide how to handle pedophile priests. None of the media coverage reported that the Catholic Church in nearly every incident followed the advice of therapists who insisted the priests had been sick and therefore lacked culpability, and had now been cured and could safely return to ministry.
(The Council of Nicea warned that priests who give scandal must be defrocked for the benefit of the faithful, and must face the just consequence of their crimes.)
We went from “My mental health is so fragile that I can’t be contraried” to “Screw your mental health. Wear the virtue signal”
Wake up!!!
Psychotherapist = psycho the rapist
Thanks for that.
I sent it to a friend who has a daughter under the influence of a therapist who’s told her, anything goes as long as it makes you happy, etc and turned her against her mother.
Psychotherapist = Psycho the rapist. (actually happened in a Yellow Pages full page ad, back in the day...or so I was told by my Ma Bell Trainer.
And now, if a therapist tries to tell a patient that homosexual behavior isn’t helping, the therapist can be fined, sued or jailed.
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