Psychology vs. Christianity

[ThinkingSapien]

Is he psychologically healthy? Would the psychologist try to get him to change?

It is goimg to depemd on why he is seeing a therapist. Psychologist dont randomly enter into a therapist role. A person is either voluntarily seeing a therapist because he wants to change himself or because some authority has obligated him to see one (such as for a psychological assessment after performing criminal action).

Being naked in public may be a legal issue instead of a psychological one. It will depend on the local public decency standards. If you are naked on a beach that may be fine. Go naked in front of a preschool and you may perceived as a threat to the public.There also may be local laws prohibiting the occupation of abandoned properties or other properties that dont have a certificate of occupancy.

Giving away wealth is not problematic either. Bill Gates set aside the inheritance for his children and said he plans to spend the rest of his life using his wealth helping people.

Also psychological assesments are not independent of considerations for ones religion.

Pardon my mistakes. Sent from my mobile device.

 

[Michael19682]

That’s way off topic. If you’d like to discuss that either send me a private message or look in one of the other threads in which that was a discussion topic in which I participated (Google is your friend).

Your answer that I should essentially “look elsewhere” is of course your personal option. However, it only shows that you have again overlooked the fact that whatever answer you gave at all might actually have been relevant to the topic. There are many engaged in this discussion and it is not necessarily one person’s view that determines what is and what is not relevant. You answer as if there is a third party judge making that determination when in fact there is none; at least not until the answer is made. Such a presence distinguishes a court trial or debate from a discussion. We here only need be concerned with civility.

 

[Michael19682]

Christianity never taught me anything.

I suppose that that psychologist was not a Christian? Or that he never learned from one?

 

[Joe_5859]

These statements, if made by psychologists, have really nothing to do with psychology. They are born from moral relativism. Psychology is the study of the thought processes of the human mind through the scientific method. I am Catholic and will soon have a Master’s degree in Cognitive Experimental Psychology. None of these statements fit the scientific evidence being researched now.
Science has no values. It is simply a tool like a hammer or wrench, and as such it must be used with proper values. Unfortunately, post-modernism is the value system many scientists have.

I studied Psychology, too, and – while I have more than my share of criticisms of certain aspects – I never heard any of those three phrases in any of my psychology courses.

But if we just want to engage in “let’s beat up on psychology to make ourselves feel better”, then I won’t interrupt. I’ll spare everyone my psychological conjecture as to why people like to engage in such enterprises.