Religious affiliation and psychiatric disorder among Protestant baby boomers.

[1689Dave]

Do some churches drive people crazy? Or do they attract crazy people?


Religious affiliation and psychiatric disorder among Protestant baby boomers. - PubMed - NCBI

 

[Reynolds]

Do some churches drive people crazy? Or do they attract crazy people?


Religious affiliation and psychiatric disorder among Protestant baby boomers. - PubMed - NCBI

They attract people who feel hopeless.

 

[Alcott]

Do some churches drive people crazy? Or do they attract crazy people?

Not sure. How did you happen to join yours?

 

[1689Dave]

In my experience, I think it's a combination of both. The worst case I saw was a Pentecostal lady whose husband I know. She doused herself with gasoline and lit a match. Knowing about her denomination and seeing what takes place in a typical service, I believe they drove her crazy.

In my cult experience, the church clearly drove people crazy to the point of thinking it was sin to wear a seatbelt. Or take medicine. And these were Southern Baptists, Methodists, Pentecostals, and walkins. The lead pastor had a THD and taught at seminary. One of his books on the Prophets is still widely used in seminaries today. Several other long term pastors among the victims.

 

[Reynolds]

In my experience, I think it's a combination of both. The worst case I saw was a Pentecostal lady whose husband I know. She doused herself with gasoline and lit a match. Knowing about her denomination and seeing what takes place in a typical service, I believe they drove her crazy.

In my cult experience, the church clearly drove people crazy to the point of thinking it was sin to wear a seatbelt. Or take medicine. And these were Southern Baptists, Methodists, Pentecostals, and walkins. The lead pastor had a THD and taught at seminary. One of his books on the Prophets is still widely used in seminaries today. Several other long term pastors among the victims.

Well, there you have it, the problem is not limited to Pentecostals.

 

[Revmitchell]

In my experience, I think it's a combination of both. The worst case I saw was a Pentecostal lady whose husband I know. She doused herself with gasoline and lit a match. Knowing about her denomination and seeing what takes place in a typical service, I believe they drove her crazy.

In my cult experience, the church clearly drove people crazy to the point of thinking it was sin to wear a seatbelt. Or take medicine. And these were Southern Baptists, Methodists, Pentecostals, and walkins. The lead pastor had a THD and taught at seminary. One of his books on the Prophets is still widely used in seminaries today. Several other long term pastors among the victims.

Let's see, how can I say this?....... I'm calling baloney on this.

 

[1689Dave]

Let's see, how can I say this?....... I'm calling baloney on this.

It's true. They drove mainline Christians insane, including several pastors who spent their life in the ministry, killing over 100 who died from easily treated ailments.

 

[1689Dave]

Well, there you have it, the problem is not limited to Pentecostals.

These became Pentecostals. I'm giving their backgrounds.

 

[Deacon]

Their using computers to play with statistics.
This is a small subset of individuals in a small geographic region.

With a large enough sample group you can find anomalies that are more prominent in smaller communities.

Rob

 

[1689Dave]

Their using computers to play with statistics.
This is a small subset of individuals in a small geographic region.

With a large enough sample group you can find anomalies that are more prominent in smaller communities.

Rob

The article confirms a high level of mental illness in Pentecostalism. And having been involved, knowing many, I believe they drive many crazy.

According to Curtis Edwards, Pagan Pentecostalism: Its Roots: Sex, Sin & Slavery, Voodoo was the religion of African slaves. And even before slavery they would voodoo any religion they took part in. They had voodoo Catholicism for the main part.

The after coming to Haitian and American shores, they voodooed what ever religion they encountered. Voodoo Methodism and voodoo Baptist churches, were common in Louisiana.

Wm. Seymour tried to voodoo the Church of God (Anderson) but got expelled.Shortly thereafter, he voodooed his Wesley Methodism at Azusa street in Los Angeles. He thought voodoo tongues were the same as Bible tongues. This became the Assemblies of God denomination with the Oneness United Pentecostal Church splitting off from them over their antitrinitarian views.

Curtis Edwards

Edwards, Curtis. Pagan Pentecostalism: Its Roots: Sex, Sin & Slavery .

Also Speaking in Tongues: Glossalalia and Stress Reduction

 

[Reynolds]

These became Pentecostals. I'm giving their backgrounds.

You started the thread like it was exclusive to Pentecostals.

 

[1689Dave]

You started the thread like it was exclusive to Pentecostals.

The article says they have a high level of mental illness the other mainline churches do not have. So this is why I asked if churches cause it, or attract those with mental illness. Then I shared one cult experience where men who served in the ministry went crazy after becoming Pentecostals. I didn't mention other Pentecostal side effects I'm aware of. A Pentecostal friend's wife dousing herself with gas and lighting a match. Foaming at the mouth, twitching, with eyes rolled back in the head in the same denomination I unwittingly visited at a friends request......

 

[Jerome]

In my experience, I think it's a combination of both. The worst case I saw was a Pentecostal lady whose husband I know. She doused herself with gasoline and lit a match. Knowing about her denomination and seeing what takes place in a typical service, I believe they drove her crazy. In my cult experience, the church clearly drove people crazy to the point of thinking it was sin to wear a seatbelt. Or take medicine.

And these were Southern Baptists, Methodists, Pentecostals, and walkins. The lead pastor had a THD and taught at seminary. One of his books on the Prophets is still widely used in seminaries today. Several other long term pastors among the victims.

Let's see, how can I say this?....... I'm calling baloney on this.

But he explained it all here:

1689Dave: God providentially delivered me from a Death Cult

"I began fellowshipping with them. Nothing stood out as unusual. They had the typical adrenalin driven praise and worship most Pentecostal churches have....we heard about a few people dying of treatable reasons. But they blamed this on lack of faith. Or their faith must not have been genuine."

"God led us away from this danger in a most unusual way. One night they presented the Limited Atonement doctrine so they could teach against it. They were Amyraldian or 4 point Calvinists."

"I needed to make a choice. If Limited Atonement is true, then everything they said about faith and healing is false. And it would explain why some died of treatable conditions. After a group discussion on the way home, it was our last involvement with them."

"Over one hundred preventable deaths happened over a ten year period reaching into the late eighties, the main teacher being one of them. The culprit was the missing L in TULIP"