Posted on 01/09/2008 11:15:02 AM PST by Pyro7480
According to "View" co-host Joy Behar, those sainted by the Catholic Church are no more than mentally ill individuals who heard voices. On the January 9 edition of "The View" Behar, who considers prayer a "distraction," suggested that there are no longer any saints due to modern medicine.
"I have a theory that you can’t find any saints any more because of psycho-tropic medication. I think that the old days the saints were hearing voices and they didn’t have any furosine to calm them down. [laughter] Now that we have all of this medication available to us, you can’t find a saint any more."
Elisabeth Hasselbeck noted the late Mother Teresa, who does not yet been given sainthood, as a modern example. Behar responded by citing Mother Theresa’s doubts and that the Church’s standard has changed due to medical advances.
"That’s why Mother Teresa had issues. Let’s not forget, she didn’t really believe 100 percent like those saints who were hearing voices. She didn’t hear voices. So the Church said ‘okay, she does good deeds. Let’s make her a saint.’ In the old days it used to be you heard voices. You can’t do that anymore."
Hasselbeck disagreed responding that voices had nothing to do with it, but rather a very strong faith asserting "I don’t think they were hearing voices. I think they were committed to their faith and they’d go to death for it."
The transcript is below.
JOY BEHAR: I’m going to get in trouble for this, but you know what? I have a theory that you can’t find any saints any more because of psycho-tropic medication. I think that the old days the saints were hearing voices and they didn’t have any furosine to calm them down. [laughter] Now that we have all of this medication available to us, you can’t find a saint any more.
ELISABETH HASSELBECK: I don’t think so, Mother Teresa.
BEHAR: That’s why Mother Teresa had issues. Let’s not forget, she didn’t really believe 100 percent like these saints who were hearing voices. She didn’t hear voices. So the Church said "okay, she does good deeds. Let’s make her a saint." In the old days it used to be you heard voices. They can’t do that anymore.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: They’d cut your hair off. They’d set you on fire. Don’t forget what they did to Joan of Arc.
BEHAR: Because she was hearing voices.
GOLDBERG: They set her on fire. That’s why people stopped saying anything.
BEHAR: Well it was- no, no, no, in the last century before you had medication, they still were hearing voices. I’m telling you.
HASSELBECK: I don’t think they were hearing voices. I think they were committed to their faith and they’d go to death for it.
SHERRI SHEPHERD: Because I hear voices. I hear voices in my head.
BEHAR: Well, duh!
[laughter]
HASSELBECK: I hear voices too.
BEHAR: Medication is in order perhaps!
—Justin McCarthy is a news analyst at Media Research Center.
Catholic ping!
There’s a voice in my head saying that Joy Behar is an ignorant woman that doesn’t know what she is saying.
John 1:5
The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.
Joy should look up the word “transference” in the dictionary.
Got that right. Behar is a very lapsed Catholic. I’m wondering what excuse do Joy and Whoopi use for their obvious mental illnesses?
Joy is too cowardly to say the same things of Mohammed.
(2) Just because Joy Behar may need psychotropic medication does not mean that the saintly faithful do.
(3) Many people today would consider Saint Maximilian Kolbe or Saint Edith Stein crazy for the choices they made, but their writings show they were far more lucid in their reasoning than "Ms." Behar.
I suggest Joy Behar is irredeemably stupid.
Saints are not always perfect. But they are holy because they strive to live a life closoe to Christ’s.
I’d really like to see someone bring up Edith Stein to her. Catholic by choice, Jewish by birth. Oh yeah, she needed to be medicated, Joy you idiot.
I have seen this show ONE time on a YouTube clip. I wouldn’t waste my time on it.
On Thursday’s The View, Joy Behar seriously suggested Senator Tim Johnson was the victim of a deliberate act to cause his brain disorder that led to emergency surgery and has left him in critical condition: “Is there such a thing as a man-made stroke? In other words, did someone do this to him?” An astounded Elisabeth Hasselbeck wondered: “Why is everything coming from the liberal perspective a conspiracy?” Behar contended, on the ABC daytime show, that the Republican Party is capable of such a nefarious deed: “I know what this, that party is capable of.”
http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2006/cyb20061215.asp#4
Two things:
1. Most people named Behar are Jewish. (So she probably abandoned that before she abanded Catholicism)
2. She is NOT a Catholic. Her parents may have raised her to be a Catholic but she is definitely NOT one.
Behar is your prototypical atheist because she believes that no intelligence person would believe in any religion. She believes that fame and attention are better than any afterlife and there is no future for her. The good news is that her views die off each generation and are not carried on.
Joy Behar was born Josephina Occhiuto. Her relatives still attend my grandmother's parish.
She married and divorced a guy named Joey Behar.
Joy Behar is IMHO a total idiot. I wish she would just shut up & go far away. She ought to move in with her pal Rosie.
Another human that denies God. Goodbye Joy.
bumpus ad summum
I often wonder how these people maintain basic bodily functions with so few synapses firing.
Luke 10:21
In that same hour, he rejoiced in the Holy Ghost, and said: I confess to thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hidden these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to little ones. Yea, Father, for so it hath seemed good in thy sight.
1 Corinthians 1:27
But the foolish things of the world hath God chosen, that he may confound the wise; and the weak things of the world hath God chosen, that he may confound the strong.
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