Why poison the well? If our arguments are bad, won't their badness be evident without the suggestion that they are motivated by some kind of psychological disability?
Denial is a serious thing for all of us at some points in our lives . . .
It is a very serious spiritual as well as psychological problem.
LACK OF PERSONAL INSIGHT
is similarly a huge spiritual and psychological problem.
Is LACK OF PERSONAL INSIGHT a subset of DENIAL or DENIAL a subset of LACK OF PERSONAL INSIGHT. OR are they different labels for different facets of the same thing. That would take some pondering.
WE ARE CALLED TO WARN A BROTHER IN OR HEADED FOR THE DITCH. THAT IS OUR CHRISTIAN DUTY BEFORE GOD.
I remain shocked at the degree of wholsale LACK OF PERSONAL INSIGHT on the part of the vast majority of RC's hereon.
Thankfully, you have a lot of personal insight to a significant degree. Betty Boop seems to be largely awash in personal insight. Mark O Malley has a lot of it.
VERY OCCASIONALLY A FEW of the rest show slight to moderate bits of it.
THAT'S A PRETTY HORRID RECORD, IN MY EXPERIENCE. It is unparalleled by ANY other supposedly heterogeneous RELIGIOUS group I've ever been around or observed.
What is WITH that??? It's an enormous puzzle to me--as psychologist and as sociologist. It's an enormously curious, fascinating puzzle.
Two factors stand out--we are all conservatives . . . I don't have a good clue about how that might contribute to RELIGIOUS DENIAL AND LACK OF PERSONAL INSIGHT.
The RC's demonstrating so much LACK OF PERSONAL INSIGHT are the more industrious posters on the RELIGION FORUM. That must have some influence on it in some part.
Otherwise, I don't have a clue. What results in this picture? I don't know. It's very curious, fascinating. IT's a great puzzle. It's just a very glaring garish picture that is impossible to ignore or pretend it isn't true.
Maybe it's best summarized by THERE'S NO ACCOUNTING FOR TASTE OR RELIGION.
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