your thoughts about them?
I come down on the side with the atheists and scientists on this one. My fellow Christians frustrate me (and a couple here do this) when they refer to mental illness as a demonic possession or a spiritual problem. I can't begin to tell you how damaging it is for someone with a mental illness to be told by family and friends that there's something wrong with them spiritually, and they just need to pray about it.
If mental illness is only a spiritual problem, then I have some Jesus pills that apparently exorcise demons.
I come down on the side with the atheists and scientists on this one. My fellow Christians frustrate me (and a couple here do this) when they refer to mental illness as a demonic possession or a spiritual problem. I can't begin to tell you how damaging it is for someone with a mental illness to be told by family and friends that there's something wrong with them spiritually, and they just need to pray about it.
If mental illness is only a spiritual problem, then I have some Jesus pills that apparently exorcise demons.