DEACON FOR LIFE

Were there to be no support in the whole history of ethical and moral thought, were there no acknowledged confirmation from medical science, were the history of legal opinion to the contrary, we would still have to conclude on the basis of God's Holy Word that the unborn child is a person in the sight of God. He is protected by the sanctity of life graciously given to each individual by the Creator, Who alone places His image upon man and grants them any right to life which they have.

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Psychiatry has replaced pastoral counseling in many of our churches.

FROM THE ARCHIVES OF NEW OXFORD REVIEW

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The Blame Game

Approximately 22 percent of adults in the U.S. suffer from diagnosable mental disorders. This statistic attracts a lot of converts to the new religion of psychiatry. Although most recognized religions have a set of rules and moral imperatives, such as the Ten Commandments, which one must follow, this is not the case with psychiatry, which places the blame elsewhere. Psychiatry takes away guilt and responsibility for one's actions or omissions -- how nice! -- and replaces them with something akin to "the Devil made me do it." The Devil in this case has been replaced by the words "addiction" and "compulsion," etc.

Read all about it...

http://www.newoxfordreview.org/article.jsp?did=1205-finneran