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Suicide among Christians
May 29, 2021 at 2:21 pm
Saw a few articles of 3 young christians, one son of the pastor, two others young pastors kill themselves. That shows the brutal pressure Christians are trying to embrace.
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RE: Suicide among Christians
May 29, 2021 at 3:29 pm
Got to heaven sooner?
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
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RE: Suicide among Christians
May 29, 2021 at 3:44 pm
(May 29, 2021 at 3:29 pm)brewer Wrote: Got to heaven sooner?

Three separate cases. Feels like the pressure, impossible expectations of religion broke those people.
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RE: Suicide among Christians
May 29, 2021 at 3:44 pm
(May 29, 2021 at 2:21 pm)purplepurpose Wrote: Saw a few articles of 3 young christians, one son of the pastor, two others young pastors kill themselves. That shows the brutal pressure Christians are trying to embrace.

Three isn’t a large enough statistical universe to conclude that. Even in these cases, the suicides may have had nothing to do with Christian pressure.  Link?

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RE: Suicide among Christians
May 29, 2021 at 3:50 pm (This post was last modified: May 29, 2021 at 3:55 pm by purplepurpose.)
(May 29, 2021 at 3:44 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(May 29, 2021 at 2:21 pm)purplepurpose Wrote: Saw a few articles of 3 young christians, one son of the pastor, two others young pastors kill themselves. That shows the brutal pressure Christians are trying to embrace.

Three isn’t a large enough statistical universe to conclude that. Even in these cases, the suicides may have had nothing to do with Christian pressure.  Link?

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https://abcnews.go.com/US/pastor-rick-wa...d=18897249
https://www.latimes.com/california/story...th-suicide
https://www.christianitytoday.com/pastor...hurch.html
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RE: Suicide among Christians
May 29, 2021 at 4:17 pm
(May 29, 2021 at 3:50 pm)purplepurpose Wrote:
(May 29, 2021 at 3:44 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Three isn’t a large enough statistical universe to conclude that. Even in these cases, the suicides may have had nothing to do with Christian pressure.  Link?

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https://abcnews.go.com/US/pastor-rick-wa...d=18897249
https://www.latimes.com/california/story...th-suicide
https://www.christianitytoday.com/pastor...hurch.html

None of the articles supports what you're trying to claim.
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RE: Suicide among Christians
May 29, 2021 at 5:52 pm
(May 29, 2021 at 3:50 pm)purplepurpose Wrote:
(May 29, 2021 at 3:44 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Three isn’t a large enough statistical universe to conclude that. Even in these cases, the suicides may have had nothing to do with Christian pressure.  Link?

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https://abcnews.go.com/US/pastor-rick-wa...d=18897249
https://www.latimes.com/california/story...th-suicide
https://www.christianitytoday.com/pastor...hurch.html

Thanks for the links. The proximate cause of all three suicides would seem to be depression, rather than ‘Christian pressure’. While once can certainly exacerbate the other, none of the articles make that point.

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