Here's a live example of some of that 'treatment' conservatives want for mental illness

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"At it's heart, the right wing ideology even with it's veneer of "compassionate conservatism" and with it's mask of right wing evangelicalism, it still sees mental illness as a sign of the "other"; as a consequence of sin, as a personal failing, as a flaw, a defect."
-Me, in response to the right wing wanting to look at mental illness in response to things like mass shootings

Last week, we posted a clip of right-wing pastor and radio host Jesse Lee Peterson responding to the news that megachurch pastor Jarrid Wilson had taken his own life by proclaiming that Wilson had never really been a Christian and was actually controlled by Satan.

On his radio program on Friday, Peterson doubled down on this assertion, claiming that depression and similar mental health issues are caused by sin and that “true” Christians don’t sin, which means that those who do suffer from such issues are actually children of Satan.

“A true Christian is never depressed or has suicidal thoughts,” Peterson said. “There are Christians who believe that you can be born-again of God but still sin. Anyone who sins are subject and are slaves to those things and so, if you still sin and call yourself a man or woman of God, you are a liar and the truth is not in you. Christ came so that you should not sin once you are born-again because sin is of your father, the devil.”

“One of the reasons that you are seeing all of these Christians who are depressed and (having) suicidal thoughts and committing suicide and living just like the world is because they are still of the world,” he added. “Satan is still their daddy.”

https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/jesse-lee-peterson-if-you-are-depressed-satan-is-your-daddy/

[Newest Reality]

1. No true Scotsman would believe that!

[Faux pas]

2. How low

will they go to push the fairytale bullshit? Sheesh.

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3. Hmm. Wonder what he'll get caught doing?

Because the loudmouthed holier than thou types usually do. We could start a pool on which sin will be the downfall of his sanctimony and self-righteousness.

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4. i'm in.

[lame54]

5. How convenient...

You're a Christian till you do something non-Christian then you never were a Christian

[CDerekGo]

6. I'm so tired of this "CINO's"

Christians In Name Only. These blowhards who only appear when convenient for them to appeal for more $$ for Jets that are needed for their 'uh-hum' "MINISTRY". It's these turds that gave me pause well over 30 years ago, and determine I was much better off without any religion in my life.

What's that verse that most of these azzhats never seem to remember, Judge not, lest ye be judged. Live by that one first dipshit, then we'll talk. Until then, could someone please disconnect power to his microphone?

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7. Peterson is an idiot. Plain and simple.

If you can stomach it, listen to one or two of his clips on YouTube and you will see the "intellectual giant" we are dealing with here. He is certainly a poster boy for those atheists who are aggressively anti-religious.

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8. In that case, no true Christian should be a hypocrite either,

but that doesn't stop them.

As far as sin goes:
Romans 3:23 "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,"

1 John 1:8 "If we claim we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves and not living in the truth."

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9. Isn't bearing false witness a sin?