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If no what changed,a greater understanding of the workings of the brain,evidence and science perhaps?.

2007-10-12 09:16:22 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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I've never thought that. I live with depression.

2007-10-12 09:48:09 · answer #1 · answered by ♥ terry g ♥ 7 · 0 0

I think that we live in an all possible world and dismissing even what we do not yet fully understand is illogical.
How can the layperson really discern the difference in every case wether the person is mentally ill because of birth disorder or any other cause without really knowing the person.
As for possessions they to have to be discerned by those in the church who have experience of such things,so my answer has to be that the greater percentage of mentally ill people are not possessed and leave the remainder to the possibilty of possession.

2007-10-12 09:27:38 · answer #2 · answered by Sentinel 7 · 1 0

*deeeeep breath* I will NOT loose my temper. Really.

In every case study I have ever read I have seen no evidence of "demon possesion". There is always some sort of explination, generally chemical AND treatable in MOST cases. The truely "evil" are people with anti-social personality disorder. This is one of the few that can't be treated it can only be monitored. STILL, there is no super natural workings in mental illness. Niether in its CAUSE or its TREATMENT.
Yes what changed was science. Demons are used to "explain" al ot things back in the day. Does make it true? No. We have since debunked demon bull ****. And if someone is mentally ill they need HELP, not a damn Bible. Faith can HELP you cope and support you. It will NOT cure mentail illness. If it did, I wouldn't be bipolar.

2007-10-12 10:00:38 · answer #3 · answered by ~Heathen Princess~ 7 · 2 0

I'm religious, and my religion never taught that the mentally ill are possessed by demons.
Some of them made great berserks, though.

2007-10-12 10:16:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

I have NEVER believed that mentally ill people are possessed by demons. Possessed of bad neurochemistry? Probably. Possessed by supernatural entities? Nope.

2007-10-12 09:19:43 · answer #5 · answered by prairiecrow 7 · 6 0

definite actually. There are nevertheless many church homes doing exorcisms on mentally unwell human beings now. many faiths themselves are based by utilising the mentally unwell. case in point the seventh Day Adventist faith replaced into based by utilising Ellen White who suffered trances and delusions and replaced into actually suffering pyschosis.

2016-11-08 03:13:37 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

"Still?" The phrasing of the premise is faulty. It's like asking a man when he stopped beating his wife...you presuppose that he actually started doing that at some point.

2007-10-12 09:21:59 · answer #7 · answered by anna 7 · 3 1

I actually have my own theory that those who have mental handicaps are God's most special children and he wanted them to be able to come to earth but not be tempted by satan so that was his way of "saving" them... they still have trials of their own and still have to go through life, but I think they will be the ones in heaven that we will be taught from someday!

2007-10-12 10:45:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 2

Still? Sorry but I never did. "Demons" don't even exist.

2007-10-12 09:22:24 · answer #9 · answered by Sun: supporting gay rights 7 · 2 0

No, Buddhists never thought of them as such, and neither have I, nor do I.

--Buddhist.

2007-10-12 09:23:12 · answer #10 · answered by 5 · 2 0

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