Posted on 09/23/2025 4:04:58 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
While clearly a painful reality for some, “mental illness” has long been an abused concept. Cold War-era Marxist nations would sometimes declare dissenters mentally ill and then lock them away in asylums. (You’d have to be crazy to disagree with the state’s official ideology, right?) Media have also applied the mentally ill label tendentiously. When they don’t want a given act of terrorism called just that, for instance, they’ll deem the perp “mentally ill.” Of course, this is all self-serving. Such fudging is made easier, though, because it gets complicated.
That is, how much of what we call mental illness is really philosophical/moral dysfunction?
Where is the line between the two?
And how often does philosophical/moral dysfunction actually cause psychological dysfunction?
(Note here that while psychology is now its own distinct “soft science,” it was long part of natural philosophy. The division between the psychological and philosophical is relatively recent — and perhaps misguided.)
This issue arises again with the vicious left-wing attacks on Charlie Kirk in his assassination’s wake. As one commentator, struck by the bizarre and malevolent behavior, puts it, “It’s Deeper Than Mental Illness.”
Unless you’ve just awoken from a Rip Van Winkle-like slumber, it’s hard to have missed the vile venom spewed at Kirk the last two weeks. As the aforementioned commentator, J. Robert Smith, points out, assassin Tyler Robinson has actually been praised. “Some even call for more violence,” he writes. In fact, just perusing Libs of TikTok’s and Vigilant Fox’s relevant X threads can make your hair stand on end. “‘Somebody had to do it’ wasn’t an uncommon refrain,” Smith informs.
The commentator is struck by something else, too. Many of the vile comments and most...
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It’s pure evil.
Comes down to whether it’s you making your decisions or somebody else in there making them for you.
Without a conscience or a soul, anything is possible.
When everyone around you is dysfunctional, it appears "normal." It becomes the "norm."
How many times have we heard "I don't know anyone who voted for him!"
Remember when a democRAT had the temerity to say: "Yes, Black Lives Matter, and all lives matter." They booed him off the stage. .
Bookmark.
ni·hil·ism
noun
nihilism (noun)
the rejection of all religious and moral principles, in the belief that life is meaningless:
He has a subheading, “Bringing evil out of the closet,” then never mentions evil again. Still squishy, paychologizing. There is a difference between mental illness and evil. As a psychologist for many years, I’ve seen it close up, and it isn’t pretty. And I’ve seen it all over the media, like he has, since the murder. There was a book written years ago by Scott Peck, “People of the Lie.” It confronts this very subject head on, but few have the courage to call evil by its rightful name.
Long story short after all kinds of insanity, he (my cousin) was found dead with a needle in his arm. He put our families through more Hell than I could take the time to explain. Animals, women, men, children, coworkers, clergy, nothing was out of bounds to this evil. Out of his family, four were dead by their choices and behavior by the age of twenty. The last one surviving is a school district administrator that is as evil as the worst of them, going unobserved, yet engaging the vulnerable.
Agree.
Pure evil doesn’t require mental illness.
Thank you for sharing that story.
So many, many stories like yours are swept aside.
This.
It’s an evil spiritual sickness.
[[The Kirk Hatred: “It’s Deeper Than Mental Illness”]]
It sure is, it’s DEMONIC POSSESSION!
When did you finally tell your parents?
Evil in our schools. Every week I Google search news “teacher arrested”
Its pages. And grows weekly. Congress / The media never discusses this epidemic.
It’s demonic.
Like I said, there’s a battle for souls going on in America.
Atheists are leaving themselves wide open.
If God’s not in your heart, satan has a wide open door and the rotting of the soul begins.
It’s not mental illness, it’s an emptiness in the soul.
Satan loves to inhabit that empty space.
Yup! It’s gotta be filled with the Holy Spirit so that the Evil one has no room to take up the space- A lot of folks though, myself included, go after the world too much rather than allowing the Spirit to guide us down the straight and narrow which is a tough road to go down- but worth it- the allure of the world is powerful and I lose4 track of the true objective- ie obeying Christ-
Christians can’t be possessed, BUT can be influenced unfortunately- but the unsaved are in real danger of being actually possessed- and sadly many are
They are in denial of the TRUTH presented by Charlie Kirk.
Really bizarre weird stuff that seemed so out of bounds it was hard to be believed. Evil.
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