Religion, Psychology and Human Abuse-Potential

Lately, I have become increasingly fearful about the abuse of power being perpetrated by the so-called modern psychological/psychiatric establishment.

In Communist China, from Falun Gong to political dissenters, anyone deemed a threat by that evil communist regime is rounded up, labelled delusional and placed in psychiatric wards.

Similarly, in the State of Florida, in the so-called "Baker Act," people are often rounded up and involuntarily thrown in psych wards for up to 72 hours of so-called 'evaluation.'

In case after case, modern psychology as a discipline shows its true colors.

BUT, did you know that the birth of modern psychology (Freud, Jung) was founded upon anti-religious, and indeed anti-Semitic principles?

Sigmund Freud, a secular Jew, sought to 'disprove Judaism,' but the end result was his own suicide on Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement!

Carl Jung, a quite prominent early modern psychological theorist, was also an Aryan supremacist who thought that "Aryan psychological identity was superior to Jewish," and indeed Carl Jung was even sympathetic of the Nazi take-over of Germany (First Things, April 2008, p. 64).

BUT, in seeking to oppose modern psychology, it is important to notice how modern psychology largely arose as Christian (& Jewish) belief and practice wavered. When Evangelical Protestants, Roman Catholics, Orthodox Jews, et al begin "losing their religious faith," in the Western world, it is usually that evil amalgam called modern psychology that takes its place.

Friends, this is state-supported religion!

Psychology claims to "re-unite" one's "true self" with the mind, yet how can this be achieved outside of a specifically RELIGIOUS MATRIX? Finally, as a Christian, and indeed normative for ALL HUMAN BEINGS, it is only the TRUE PSYCHE of JESUS of Nazareth, Who through being FULLY GOD and FULLY MAN, can re-unite the human being to his/her 'true self.'

So, sorry Freud, religious belief is not a "human projection of child-like needs."

Sorry Carl Jung, the Universal Metaphors that you so ardently sought could not be found in racial supremacy (Arianism!), but instead are found in that Semitic, Aramaic-speaking GOD-MAN named Jesus Christ, the Jew Who is GOD-in-flesh . . .

Blessings in Yeshua CHRIST, Rob (St. Petersburg College, Religion Instructor . . .)