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What, specifically, does baptist christianity offer over any other religion? Or counseling given by an accredited therapist? Or, well, any other life experience
by lmaoseriously 9y ago
What, specifically, does baptist christianity offer over any other religion? Or counseling given by an accredited therapist? Or, well, any other life experience?
I think the church can offer a sense of community that many people are seeking or lack, but this is just an outrageous claim. If "god" was the answer to mental illness, and this fact was definitive, there would be no mental illness left.
- throwanem 9y agoThere's nothing unique to Christianity here. It's just very easy for someone who's found what he needed to imagine that that's what everyone else needs, too. It's also a lot easier, I think especially for Christians but by no means only for us, to go that way, than to realize - and live up to - the fact that what we're truly called to do is not merely to speak easy words, but to take difficult actions; not to profess an answer to someone's problems, but as best we can to be that answer, even if only for a minute. Our faith, in short, requires that we live for others. That's hard to do, and most of us are not good at it. My brother errs. I'm sorry for that.