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Related: About this forumEric Rush: President Obama plans to brand Christians as suffering from a mental disorder
I thought I've heard it all. Apparently not.
Excerpts from a piece written by conservative nut Eric Rush.
Now, while the APA is the premier psychiatric association in America, driving what passes for all conventional wisdom with regard to mental illness, in recent years it has been accused of being more agenda-driven than representing hard, scientific and medical assessments of mental disorders. Decidedly liberal-leaning, in recent decades it has essentially redefined such things as homosexuality, gender identification disorder, and pedophilia to reflect what pressure groups and the liberal intelligentsia wish, rather than continuing to describe them as psychologically aberrant.
Along with his disdain for European society and what Obama perceives as the vestiges of imperialism, colonialism, and white supremacy (which includes America), he also despises that which gave rise to it, which serves as its cultural adhesive, and which stands as the chief impediment to a Marxist America: Christianity.
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In all honesty, I would not object to any attempt to label right wing nuts as suffering from a mental disorder.
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)in Rush's eyes - he's a self-worshipping Marxist?
FleetwoodMac
(351 posts)With a miniature statue, or by staring at a mirror?
JHB
(37,161 posts)FleetwoodMac
(351 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)midwest irish
(155 posts)So in other words, "We have no idea what we are talking about but we wanted to make something up so you would stay scared and not listen to anything Obama says."
emulatorloo
(44,182 posts)Or was that mandatory circumcision? Or mandatory gay marriage? I get confused. They never came to confiscate my Bible, as some other wingnut promised.
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)before they decide to mandate a sex change operation and/or to gay marry.
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)being forced to watch your kids recite passages from the Koran while one of Obama's death panels kills granny. And then he shoots you with your own gun and puts your body in a FEMA death camp.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)/shoves Carl Marx back into it's grave.
The military has a defination of mental illness and has used that to remove gun ownership from some of our returning military. The Gov. will probably use that same system to not allow some persons with medical conditions to own guns. That is already the law, part of what gun sellers ignore because there is no regulation.
It's really wrong to tell Christians that our President will make a target of any religious group.
FleetwoodMac
(351 posts)"Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ."
I am a functional agnostic, and I have absolutely no problems with REAL Christians.
But I have a huge problem with Christian Dominionism.
Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)Looks like he may be familiar with mental disorders, himself.
Are these off-the-wall ideas created by their think tanks? I can't believe what rubbish they can come up with.
patrice
(47,992 posts)patrice
(47,992 posts)FleetwoodMac
(351 posts)patrice
(47,992 posts)are plus or minus around an average, others are further away from that average, still others more extreme, and others still even more extreme.
Some patterns of variation can be more strongly corelated to certain cohorts, but just looking at those variations in brain maps doesn't tell you very much about causes, but one thing you'd for sure have to do, to begin to say anything definitive about possible authentic pathologies would be to identify those variances that cannot be ameliorated by more situational factors like social contexts, for example that associated with some churches and not others, economic rewards and punishers, ignorance, fear, substance abuse . . . .
There's tons of stuff that can look like what people refer to as "mental illness" but, where it might not be wholly determined by situational factors, enough situation stuff can have strong enough of an effect that a variation that wouldn't be a problem in other circumstances becomes what other people say is a mental illness in that context.
FleetwoodMac
(351 posts)Seriously though, I get what you're saying. For instance, Amafufunyan, which in my mind, is nothing more than validating a scam by witch doctors.
Aristus
(66,462 posts)Alarmist much?...
patrice
(47,992 posts)Blue Idaho
(5,057 posts)Its terrifying that there actually is an audience for this brain drool.
Revanchist
(1,375 posts)but how can this man spew this much bullshit with his head that far up his ass?