Sick/Mental Illness is the fasionable name for SIN

PC CDROM · 18-10-2012 9:37pm #1

It may be true. I'm not sure. Are you?

When you look at what were called sins in the past.......

We no longer see things as sins but illnesses.

flutterflye · 18-10-2012 9:44pm

Ha!! "Sins"?! Wut?!

Quatermain · 18-10-2012 9:45pm

That is just downright insulting. Greed, pride, envy are apparently in the same camp as paranoia, Alzheimer's disease, and depression? Not on your life, chum.

Duckworth_Luas · 18-10-2012 9:45pm

PC CDROM wrote: »

It may be true. I'm not sure. Are you?

When you look at what were called sins in the past.......

We no longer see things as sins but illnesses.

Masturbation was a sin! Are all teenagers mentally ill?

On second thoughts!

kowloon · 18-10-2012 9:46pm

I thought a lot of mental illnesses were called 'Demonic Possession', not sin.

Kurz · 18-10-2012 9:47pm

Perhaps mental illness is a perfectly legitimate concept and the idea of "sin" was actually the questionable one?

the_syco · 18-10-2012 9:48pm

Jaysus holy fúcking christ, what is this sin you speak of?

kowloon · 18-10-2012 9:49pm

Kurz wrote: »

Perhaps mental illness is a perfectly legitimate concept and the idea of "sin" was actually the questionable one?

You're clearly an apostle of Satan here to distract me from the true path.

THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU!

YFlyer · 18-10-2012 9:51pm

PC CDROM wrote: »

It may be true. I'm not sure. Are you?

When you look at what were called sins in the past.......

We no longer see things as sins but illnesses.

Violation of Natural Law

UCDVet · 18-10-2012 10:11pm

Quatermain wrote: »

That is just downright insulting. Greed, pride, envy are apparently in the same camp as paranoia, Alzheimer's disease, and depression? Not on your life, chum.

A lot of people would be willing to accept that excessive greed, pride and envy would be signs of a social or psychological disorder. Rather than being 'sinful' and greedy, I'd suffer from a hoarding disorder that stems both from not having enough growing up as a small child and a genetic predisposition to it (since my Grandmother was also a hoarder).

Some are more apparent than others. Gluttony jumps to mind. It's completely embraced by our culture and we've created lots of diseases we can use to justify it.

Catari Jaguar · 18-10-2012 10:15pm

Are we not enlightened??

4zn76tysfajdxp · 18-10-2012 10:19pm

PC CDROM wrote: »

It may be true. I'm not sure. Are you?

When you look at what were called sins in the past.......

We no longer see things as sins but illnesses.

You're not exactly PC are you, CDROM?

Quatermain · 18-10-2012 10:31pm

UCDVet wrote: »

A lot of people would be willing to accept that excessive greed, pride and envy would be signs of a social or psychological disorder. Rather than being 'sinful' and greedy, I'd suffer from a hoarding disorder that stems both from not having enough growing up as a small child and a genetic predisposition to it (since my Grandmother was also a hoarder).

Some are more apparent than others. Gluttony jumps to mind. It's completely embraced by our culture and we've created lots of diseases we can use to justify it.

You make a fine point, but the fact that the word "sin" is being invoked by the OP suggests a very strongly religious standpoint, which leaves very little room for the subtle nuances of psychological development. I myself am a sufferer of a form of paranoia caused by childhood stresses, but I wouldn't describe myself as being "slothful".

I would argue that "sin" itself is committed as a result of free will, hence my anger (or "wrath", hohoho) that it be associated with something that is clearly not the fault of the sufferer.

Pottler · 18-10-2012 10:36pm

....Wracks brain to try and work out what S.I.N is an acronym for.

Immaculate Pasta · 18-10-2012 10:39pm

Good evening Glenn Hoddle...

Grayson · 18-10-2012 10:42pm

at one point being poor was considered an insanity.

Quatermain · 19-10-2012 12:37am

On that very point, Grayson!

ArtSmart · 19-10-2012 12:52am

sin is when you enjoy it, but feel you shouldn't be.

ArtSmart · 19-10-2012 12:58am

Grayson wrote: »

at one point being poor was considered an insanity.

well, in fairness....

kiddin.

suspicious of the word 'fashionable' in the thread title , but giving the OP the benefit of the doubt. (ie that this isn't a Jebus Saves pre-empt)

As Walter White postulated, isn't it all just current thinking, the whole right n wrong thingy.

the only rule is preservation of the species, and our current laws facilitate that at the mo. back in the day, it was a sin to well...take your pick, there were so many.... but at the mo there's particular ones which have stood the test of time, like thou shall not troll murder.

(edit: to clarify. sin is that which threatens the human species - primarily though direct action, though sometimes through indirect action. mental illness is just that. sin in the historical context is a cultural phenomenon, which coincides in a number of areas with the Prime Directive (he he), I mean main purpose - the preservation of the human species. in time, ecological mismanagement will be classed as a sin as cultural parameters change to accommodate survival issues.

(example would be hygiene/ food laws of old, there to protect the species, violation of same = sin. but as technology changed eating certain foods carried little risk, so were eventually de-classified or reduced in significance)