Posted on 03/30/2013 5:17:53 AM PDT by wesagain
According to an article published this week on Time magazine’s website, your child’s “fastidiousness to religious practices” may be a sign of mental illness.
“Religion can be a source of comfort that improves well-being,” begins the article by author Francine Russo. “But some kinds of religiosity could be a sign of deeper mental health issues.”
In the article titled “Can Your Child Be Too Religious?” Russo continues, “If your child is immersed in scripture after school and prays regularly throughout the day, you may breathe a sigh of relief. She’s such a good girl. … Or maybe not. Your child’s devotion may be a great thing, but there are some kids whose religious observances require a deeper look. For these children, an overzealous practice of their family faith – or even another faith – may be a sign of an underlying mental health issue.”
The article explains therapists report seeing children and teens who dive into excessive religiosity as an unhealthy coping mechanism, a form of obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD, that’s “no more spiritual than fanatical hand washing.”
The article describes a type of OCD called scrupulosity, where children “obsessively worry that they have committed blasphemy, been impure or otherwise sinned” and warns against religious delusions or hallucinations that parents may be less attuned to “when it occurs under the guise of faith.”
Russo suggests parents evaluate.......
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
The article is the sort of thing that used to get published under a title like "IS YOUR CHILD IN A CULT?" except nowadays Time can probably assume most of its remaining readers have no religion and think of all faiths as "cults."
Interesting. Obama hates real Americans, the ones who cling to God and to guns. Obama wants to grab our guns based on excuses such as mental illness. Now the media is claiming that actually believing in God to the point where that affects your life is mental illness. Our Dear Leader must love having the most compliant media since the Germany media followed Goebbels’ orders 70 years ago.
I remember Time Magazine.
Peter Hoaglund - Nebraska Senator and Humanist member of the Nebraska Board of Education said this in 1983 … Fundamentalists have no right to indoctrinate their children in their beliefs. We are preparing their children for the year 2000 and life in a global one-world society and those children will not fit in!
John Dunphy in The Humanist 1983 said “The battle for man-kinds future must be won in the classroom by teachers who correctly perceive their role as proselytizers of a new faith that will replace Christianity”
A Chronological History of the New World Order includes this quote by a co-signer, C.F. Potter, in 1930: Education is thus a most powerful ally of humanism, and every American public school is a school of humanism. What can the theistic Sunday schools, meeting for an hour once a week, teaching only a fraction of the children, do to stem the tide of a five-day program of humanistic teaching?
Dr. W. Pierce of Harvard University said in 1973…”Every 5 year old student is mentally ill, because he comes to school with allegiance toward elected officials, founding fathers, institutions, government, patriotism, nationalism and sovereignty - all of these prove the child is sick because the well individual is one who has rejected all of these things and is what I call a true international child of the future”.
Paul Brandivein in The Social Sciences - a school text book said “Any child who believes in God is mentally ill”.
Adolph Hitler said….”Let me control the textbooks and I will control the state. The state will take youth and give to youth it’s own education and it’s own upbringing. Your child belongs to us already….what are you?”
“We should be able to fail any student no matter what their grade records indicate if the professor discovers that the student believes in creation or God….. Furthermore the school should have the right to retract grades and even degrees given if the student later becomes a creationist.” …... Kendrick Foster an Iowa professor in the fall 1983 Skeptical Inquirer Magazine
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