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Tuesday, May 5, 2009

What's Wrong with Psychology

I haven't wrote much about psychology, or more specifically psychotherapy. Fundamentally I view it as a religion that masquerades as science. I could go in many different directions with this, but for now I want to give another reason I came across recently that it is a very dangerous thing.
According to an article by Dr. Dennis Cuddy, John Rawlings Rees (future co-founder of the World Federation for Mental Health in 1948) gave a speech on June 18, 1940 at the National Council for Mental Hygiene in the United Kingdom entitled "Strategic Planning for Mental Health." In it he said this:
"We can therefore justifiably stress our particular point of view with regard to the proper development of the human psyche, even though our knowledge be incomplete. We must aim to make it permeate every educational activity in our national life.... We have made a useful attack upon a number of professions. The two easiest of them naturally are the teaching profession and the Church: the two most difficult are law and medicine.... Public life, politics and industry should all of them be within our sphere of influence.... If we are to infiltrate the professional and social activities of other people, I think we must imitate the Totalitarians and organize some kind of fifth column activity! If better ideas on mental health are to progress and spread we, as the salesmen, must lose our identity.... Let us all, therefore, very secretly be 'fifth columnists.'"
(See MENTAL HEALTH, Vol. 1, No. 4, October 1940)
Any group that finds it necessary to "infiltrate [our] professional and social activities" by secrecy can't be for our best interests. This isn't surprising to me, considering the founders of psychology have all been atheist, humanist, and anti-christian. In fact the goals of psychotherapy are anti-christ goals in that they aim to be a replacement for the redemption found in Jesus Christ's finished work on the cross. Christians need to wake up and realize we don't need the world's methods to fix our spiritual problems. These problems are due to sin. Only the blood of Jesus Christ can deliver us.
Jeremiah 17:5,7 Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD... (7) Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.

2 Peter 1:3-4 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: (4) Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

Psalms 1:1-2 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. (2) But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

1 Corinthians 3:18-19 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. (19) For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.

1 Corinthians 1:18-19 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. (19) For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.

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