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Author Topic:   Making Sense of Evil (Virginia Tech Massacre)
NosyNed
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Message 17 of 110 (396534)
04-20-2007 2:07 PM
Reply to: Message 15 by macaroniandcheese
04-20-2007 2:02 PM


An appeal to the demon theory
It is simply another appeal to the idea that diseases are caused by demons. They think they can make the claim for mental illness because they don't know what is understood about it. Only a few are stupid enough to continue to make such claims about germ caused diseases.
If a possession of Satan can be impacted by taking pills one wonders just how powerful this enemy of God actually is.

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NosyNed
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Message 77 of 110 (397182)
04-24-2007 8:46 PM
Reply to: Message 70 by One_Charred_Wing
04-23-2007 11:25 PM


Irresponsible approach
If that were the case, then addressing the evil (that manifests itself through our own evils) would be to combat it with our own means: research into mental illnesses, therapy, biopsychotic drugs if necessary, and perhaps some TLC.
That doesn't sound irresponsible at all, does it? Doesn't sound like much of a change from what you and I seem to believe, either.
It is irresponsible to attribute mental illness to a supernatural puppeteer since when that was done we did NOT combat it through psychotropic drugs or therapy we used magical methods and didn't try to search further for the real causes.
Drug therapy is very unlikely to be successful unless it starts from a presumption that there is some physical, chemical reason for mental illness and then attempts to find and treat that reason.
Witch doctors and priests had centuries to show how well the supernatural presumption works. Since we dropped that we actually have started to make progress. To fall back to the old ways is now demonstratably irresponsible.
And,as an aside, why bring up something you don't believe in? Seems a sure way to side track a discussion.

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