From what I've seen in my father, who actually had a father who was schizophrenic, religion is the main contributing factor to him denying modern medical intervention in any and all parts of his physical body.
His reasoning is that god made our bodies, and doctors are just students of our bodies who try to override gods natural order to make themselves gods. No joke. And he's definitely not the first christian I've come across with this problem, there's many who are mentally ill and refuse treatment thus suffering their families to their fate with a deeply ingrained religious blockade keeping them from being well.
What's more is it is absolutely impossible for me to get him to go to the doctor for his diabetes, and hence his mental state has suffered greatly from the health problems he now faces. In 2011, he called me to tell me he'd be stopping eating and drinking and that he would crawl in a hole and die, which would not be considered suicide in gods eyes. Didn't work, he's still around. But the things he said on the way out triggered his mentally fragile son to begin his own mental breakdown which is still ongoing and very real--only he's suicidal.
Hell, I've even been told that god will heal me if I pray it with the faith of a child and he wills it. Then when I wasn't healed I was told that it was for the best, that god knows best, and that my illness could have altered my future and saved me from an even grimmer future or death. Hence I should be thankful for my illness, take it in stride, and stop complaining.
His reasoning is that god made our bodies, and doctors are just students of our bodies who try to override gods natural order to make themselves gods. No joke. And he's definitely not the first christian I've come across with this problem, there's many who are mentally ill and refuse treatment thus suffering their families to their fate with a deeply ingrained religious blockade keeping them from being well.
What's more is it is absolutely impossible for me to get him to go to the doctor for his diabetes, and hence his mental state has suffered greatly from the health problems he now faces. In 2011, he called me to tell me he'd be stopping eating and drinking and that he would crawl in a hole and die, which would not be considered suicide in gods eyes. Didn't work, he's still around. But the things he said on the way out triggered his mentally fragile son to begin his own mental breakdown which is still ongoing and very real--only he's suicidal.
Hell, I've even been told that god will heal me if I pray it with the faith of a child and he wills it. Then when I wasn't healed I was told that it was for the best, that god knows best, and that my illness could have altered my future and saved me from an even grimmer future or death. Hence I should be thankful for my illness, take it in stride, and stop complaining.
If I were to create self aware beings knowing fully what they would do in their lifetimes, I sure wouldn't create a HELL for the majority of them to live in infinitely! That's not Love, that's sadistic. Therefore a truly loving god does not exist!
Dead wrong. The actions of a finite being measured against an infinite one are infinitesimal and therefore merit infinitesimal punishment.
I say again: No exceptions. Punishment should be equal to the crime, not in excess of it. As soon as the punishment is greater than the crime, the punisher is in the wrong.
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Quote:The sin is against an infinite being (God) unforgiven infinitely, therefore the punishment is infinite.
Dead wrong. The actions of a finite being measured against an infinite one are infinitesimal and therefore merit infinitesimal punishment.
Quote:Some people deserve hell.
I say again: No exceptions. Punishment should be equal to the crime, not in excess of it. As soon as the punishment is greater than the crime, the punisher is in the wrong.
