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Vlad_The_Impaler on scored.co
1 year ago7 points(+0/-0/+7Score on mirror)4 children
I believe that the Supreme White colonialists who settled North America burned women at the stake because they were really, genuinely dealing with witchcraft. It sounds absurd, but we learn about possession and exorcism in the Bible. It's foolish for Christians to suddenly believe such things are impossible.
1 year ago3 points(+0/-0/+3Score on mirror)1 child
> It sounds absurd, but we learn about possession and exorcism in the Bible
We live in a society that worships empiricism. If you can't quantify it, it might as well not exist. "That boy ain't right" is no less true today, but it doesn't fly anymore because you if can't say *exactly* what's wrong with the person in clinical terms, then apparently nothing is wrong (and even the very notions of right and wrong are in question).
What's worse is that these people know they're struggling with demons, so they go to a psychologist who, instead of encouraging them to master their demons and practice virtue... drugs them up to effectively kill their better angels and let the demon run rampant. *At best* the pills debilitate the human to the point that they're harmless, at worst they start knocking out bits of memory where the human is effectively completely out of control and the demon masquerades as the human to do as it pleases. These days those pastimes tend to involve shooting up schools and whatnot.
And you can make secular arguments about neurochemistry and impulses and whatnot, but
a.) INCREDIBLY difficult to measure in real time, and
b.) all of those are just physical manifestations of what our better ancestors knew to be "demons."
It's just another product of the Critical Society - that is, adherents to Critical Theory. They break everything down to the point that nothing means anything, at which point they can rebuild meaning to fit their own ends.
Empiricism/Critical Theory is ultimate a diabolic mountain of lies, the more it deconstructs and defiles, the more it knocks out the foundation on which it stands. Its like jenga blocks, they can only remove so much before it all falls over.
We live in a society that worships empiricism. If you can't quantify it, it might as well not exist. "That boy ain't right" is no less true today, but it doesn't fly anymore because you if can't say *exactly* what's wrong with the person in clinical terms, then apparently nothing is wrong (and even the very notions of right and wrong are in question).
What's worse is that these people know they're struggling with demons, so they go to a psychologist who, instead of encouraging them to master their demons and practice virtue... drugs them up to effectively kill their better angels and let the demon run rampant. *At best* the pills debilitate the human to the point that they're harmless, at worst they start knocking out bits of memory where the human is effectively completely out of control and the demon masquerades as the human to do as it pleases. These days those pastimes tend to involve shooting up schools and whatnot.
And you can make secular arguments about neurochemistry and impulses and whatnot, but
a.) INCREDIBLY difficult to measure in real time, and
b.) all of those are just physical manifestations of what our better ancestors knew to be "demons."
It's just another product of the Critical Society - that is, adherents to Critical Theory. They break everything down to the point that nothing means anything, at which point they can rebuild meaning to fit their own ends.