I once heard a man who calls himself one of god's "high priests" talking about a paraplegic who, when he didn't get up and walk after this priest laid hands on him to heal him, lacked sufficient faith to be healed. Now, it would seem to me that being a paraplegic confined to a wheel chair would be enough grief for this young man to bear without an ego-maniacal religious fanatic announcing to him that he lacked faith in god; ergo, it was the paraplegic man's fault that he couldn't walk, not god's or god's priests.
I agree that the majority of people who subscribe to this kind of thinking are nuts and need extensive therapy. But . . . there are also quite a few psychopaths (psychopathy and bizarre ideation are mutually exclusive, although the two separate dynamics can occur together in an individual) who are drawn to these wacko churches because the religion gives them a platform from which they can dominate others and practice their "special" kind of sadism and grandiosity. These monsters should be in prison. In fact, prison is too good for them.
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I once heard a man who calls himself one of god's "high priests" talking about a paraplegic who, when he didn't get up and walk after this priest laid hands on him to heal him, lacked sufficient faith to be healed. Now, it would seem to me that being a paraplegic confined to a wheel chair would be enough grief for this young man to bear without an ego-maniacal religious fanatic announcing to him that he lacked faith in god; ergo, it was the paraplegic man's fault that he couldn't walk, not god's or god's priests.
I agree that the majority of people who subscribe to this kind of thinking are nuts and need extensive therapy. But . . . there are also quite a few psychopaths (psychopathy and bizarre ideation are mutually exclusive, although the two separate dynamics can occur together in an individual) who are drawn to these wacko churches because the religion gives them a platform from which they can dominate others and practice their "special" kind of sadism and grandiosity. These monsters should be in prison. In fact, prison is too good for them.