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Jul 28, 2009, 04:10 PM
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Member Since: Oct 2005
Location: Florida
Posts: 737
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Christina86
- Just pray to God and he'll fix you (and if he doesn't, you don't have enough faith)
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As a Christian, this one hurts the most. I've had two different pastors in two completely different types of churches say this to me.
The first was an ultra-Charismatic "name it and claim it" type and. If "claiming my healing didn't work, then they felt it was that it was the cause of "demons" and I needed to go through "deliverance." (A woman in this church was actually told by another member that her husband died of cancer because someone spoke negatively.  )
The other is an Episcopal church. The comment was made by the elderly assistant Rector who I truly admire, but I really think that his generation does not understand mental illness. Heck, there are still people in our "enlightened era" that don't if they have not been exposed to it somehow. His response: "You can wake up in the morning and "choose" to be happy or depressed."
I would LOVE it to be that easy. Sure would have saved a LOT of money in pdoc visits, meds, emotional wear and tear, loss of the profession I love, unpaid student loads, bill collectors, etc.
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Last edited by Azalysa; Jul 28, 2009 at 04:36 PM.
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