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"Jesus was Insane": Diagnostic SurveysThis page gives access to all the diagnostic criteria of ten main personality disorders. Maybe you should know of them, as there is much biblical evidence to support a reasonable dignosis of Jesus as a histrionic, paranoid and antisocial psychopath.And is there something in "Birds of a feather flock together" and "Like attracts like", for example? Now let us see where Jesus and followers might fit in. Jesus was either a liar or insane, or both. It should not be too hard to find non-Christian experts on mental disorders and diseases to make a discursive diagnosis resulting in "Jesus was insane" from carefully documented criteria applied to the gospel evidence. Modesty is not all there is to life, remember. Jesus is the originator of one of the tensest sects in history. And Christianity generates wild sects "yearly", so to speak. Look to the fruits to determine the tree, is the teaching. The cult of Christianity took off from Judaism with ruins in its wake. Millions of its sect members were martyrised.
If you click on disorder headings below, you get to the definitions of about ten major personality disorders to compare him or anyone else with. The World Health Organisation's (WHO's) definitions are there, and those used by the American Psychiatrist Association (APA) go along with them. It helps to be informed, and also to be carefully guarded. Train yourself a little as a diagnostician before you publicly claim Jesus is a horrible Multiple Psychopath. Blind belief and blind disbelief is not the solution. You may not be served by talking too big and as a result get a bizarre reputation; instead be well guarded. The proper procedure is: Make up your own mind and guard the privacy of your own thoughts for safety. And if at least three symtoms of any personality disorder seem to fit him nicely, do not be afraid to note it down and weigh him as well as you can. After all, his marring influence could outweigh the fare of lives of today, and perhaps yours too. You may grade the symptoms you detect in two: as "(they are) there" and "more severe (ones)", for that is how mental disorders are diagnosed in outline: Pick your choice, try to excel in the art of matching the assembled, official characteristics and striking features of a person. There is much biblical evidence that Jesus was a histrionic, paranoid and antisocial psychopath, for example - not just outrageously garrulous. But do not be scapegoated for "canonising" your findings by making the verdicts official as your stand in public or whatever: Consider the consequences . . . for example that some that are set on being hailed as God, or banding with such a one, can be of sick minds, quite insane, even dangerous criminals under the surfaces. Such criminals and sickly sheep are not just marked by rude unconcern. And what is more, Jesus did not come for healthy persons, he says, and also told that being healthy is better than being ill - not to speak of better than being a slave and sheep (conform at it too). [Matthew 9:12-13] Opposed to criminals and sick sheep, going for health of mind and spirit and survive thus is no error. Since the gospel's message is that healthy ones do not need him and therefore should not be called by him, sheep that escape from him, might have potensial for something better, and lead good lives too. "What is the use of worrying? / It never was worth while," writes George Asaf (1880-1951) in a song [Oq 423]. Many times it is, though. Do what is apt with mockingbirds and untruths, but furnish and keep some mental space or "room" for openings too. Clearly maladaptive Jesus by quality criteria - selectionsNote: The diagnostic criteria used by WHO and APA are shown on a separate page. Click on the headlines for getting to them.Antisocial Personality Disorder (Psychopaths and sociopaths):
Anxious (Avoidant) Personality Disorder :
ExampleObsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder (301.40): Diagnostic CriteriaThe theoretical claim that Jesus had an obsessive-compulsive personality disorder rests on gospel passages mainly. Perhaps some other early writings too, like the Gospel of Thomas may be taken into account, but at present such texts are not widely accepted or canonical.If you go ahead like a mature psychiatrist and not airily, you may "build with the logs (the diagnostic criteria) detected", as if joining logs for a rough but sturdy cabin. Three weighty points will do, remember. Those who think Jesus conforms the diagnosis by the first three points alone, may not be mistaken. It helps to approach "the case of Jesus" with a frank, unbiased mind: Consider what would be the appropriate response if anyone else claims to be God, demands willing self-sacrifice, and confuses followers, having a strange attraction and so on. Do not let any ceremonial, allotted respect demand overshadow your diagnosis and bullyrag you further. As for the tentative example below, one may fill in quotations and extracts or gospel references - there are lots of them.
Further descriptions as quoted
Standards or Principles Require Consideration to Become Your OwnThe rise and current size of what is a sect is not the main problem, but its intrinsic characteristics that point to a hardened criminal gang on top, one that sees it fit to discard the "rules of the game" for the sake of perceived great profit at any time. See where the money goes. Bad leaders discard high principles for money, prestige, and power, as the case may be.The Church in history was far from innocent in demoniac cruzades, the Grand Inquisition, slave-capturing, exploitations, murders, massacres, and robberies on other continents for centuries. But as luck would have it, you have found that Buddha talks plain sense and that his teaching goes against multiform insanity at large. Hurra for that. Beginning research has found out that Buddhist really are happier folks than others. Many sects and orientations exist in Buddhism too, but you do not have to embrace any of them to benefit from sound counsel. There is much material to probe into on-site. [LINK] "Have You Seen That Demon?"This chapter shows a bit of the writings of someone who has had enough, but without any diagnostic test to help him:"JESUS WAS INSANE" (Religion is Lies. 11 January 2008 [www.religionislies.com/deranged.html] is a page where one central idea is that Christianity is a con and its members are being exploited. In Jesus was Insane most of the following points may be found, and many others. It may be noted that the unnamed author strikes out against all religion and advocates atheism, and often overshoots the mark. For all that we may enjoy some of the good points made. Blind speculation versus becoming rationalityThere is a proverb to accommodate to, "Twin fools, one doubts nothing, the other, everything. Believers talk of God out of belief, without minding that sound proof that he exists may be wanting. Disbelievers, including atheists, say there is no Higher Being because they have made up their minds like that. They cannot furnish any valid proof either. Plegmatic people - somewhere "in the middle" between the two fools - may assess: "Since proof is lacking, both of these stands may rightly be called speculation. At any rate, if we do not know, why should we rashly and prematurely make up our minds in such a vital matter? Agnostics belong to this group.You have these options initially: Yes, Maybe, No. If you say "maybe", you are free to put the whole matter aside, at least for a while, to let it rest, to calm down, whatever. You are also free to explore the issue if you are up to it, and know how to handle such investigative activity. I once told an atheist becoming modesty, "You say God does not exist, but have you visited the whole universe to check it first-hand? Maybe he is sitting in an underground cave on one of the moons of Jupiter? How can you tell he is not there or anywhere else?" That silenced him all right. Some people are able to reflect if they get clues that suit them. Buddhism allows good questioningBuddha himself left open the issue of whether there is a God or not. He never categorically said there is no God, no Self, and so on. What he taught focused on life-improvements by meditation, adjusting actions to high morality (sila), and a suitable fellowship (sangha). It is not perfectly correct to say that Buddhism is atheistic. You are free to find out for yourself to the degree you can.As for Jesus, what we can talk about is what is presented in the four gospels and Acts, maybe with additions like the Gospel of Thomas. The fact that different gospels tell different versions of the same happenings, mars their credibility. For example, in one place we are told that Judas Iscariot hanged himself, in another place that he did not, that his belly burst and his intestines fell out. But "You cannot eat your cake and have it too." You cannot both be hanged and walk on a field where your intestines fall out of you, even though both tales are written in a book that some believe in up to foolishly. Now for one atheist's claims - in essence:Church leaders pick and choose what they like out of Jesus' teaching and then claim to be his honest representatives.Jesus' anger against the Pharisees and the scribes in Matthew 23 was definitely over the top. Jesus condemned wealth as sinful, and made great, great claims about himself. Christian faith is based on what underdogs wrote about Jesus later. Jesus own family believed that he was mad (Mark 3:21) Jesus would lose fans if they could see that the choice he left them in the sermon on the mount etc. was letting bullies walk all over them, to the end that bullies and evil ones got the upper hand. Jesus gave such bad advice it might signal deep insanity. He taught that demons abounded. Have you seen one? He stated in Matthew 12 that a demon can be exorcised and come back to take over the victim with seven others. (2) Jesus went into a rage in the Temple and endangered his own life and that of other people and his friends, for it drove him to cause a riot. He knew about the temple practice before, for he was in the Temple often enough. So why snap then? (3) Jesus said many irrational things such as God of the deceased Abraham, Isaac and Jacob meant that God was God of the living, not the dead, so the dead were still alive. There was no reason to take such a bizarre interpretation. (4) There is no evidence for Jesus' sanity and plenty of evidence against it. The generation he was a part of he described as an "evil generation". He also stated that nobody was good or to be called good, not himself either (Mark 10:18) (5) Jesus said that a man who looks at a woman with lust commits adultery with her in his mind and therefore sins (Matthew 5:28). He didn't say married woman. He meant that looking at any woman with desire was a sin of adultery. The gospels do not give us any confidence in the sanity of Jesus. The four gospel variants of the resurrection tale differ considerably. And that definitely weakens the resurrection faith in some. The Christian faith has the hallmarks of being created by . . . the biggest psychopath of the lot. (6) If anybody else made the same claim as Jesus [dying for all when sacrificing a goat and shepherding another goat into the wilderness had been far easier] they would dismiss him or her as insane. In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus forbade sexual desire, forbade standing up for yourself and your property and commanded helping your enemy, though this was helping them to oppress you. If that is not mental impairment what is? Jesus said that when you were struck on one cheek turn the other. So you are not allowed to be fitly assertive. Also, Jesus was studiously provocative. The declarations of Jesus about the whole generation of his time being evil and sinful and nobody being good is . . . When he was on the cross he cried that God had forsaken him. Wasn't he God himself? The evidence for the divine origin of the claims of Christ is so flimsy that who believes in Christianity wants to believe. They may have been conditioned. (7) People still fear demons even though they do not deeply believe in them. The Christian system was designed to produce psychopaths and neurotics. If its bloody history is anything to go by, it has plainly succeeded to a great extent. He went into the desert and claimed he saw the Devil there! We have to be on guard . . . because . . . Christianity was founded on the ravings of a madman. (8) Jesus SummaryJesus of Nazareth was most likely born 7–2 BCE and died 26–36 CE.
The main sources of information regarding Jesus' life and teachings are the gospels. Each gospel portrays Jesus' life and its meaning differently. Matthew and Luke give different accounts of Jesus' genealogy. The lists differ between David and Joseph. At the height of his ministry, Jesus attracted huge crowds. During the Sanhedrin Trial of Jesus, the high priests and elders asked Jesus, "Are you the Son of God?" When he replied, "You are right in saying I am," they condemned Jesus for blasphemy (Luke 22:70–71). According to all four Gospels, Jesus died before late afternoon at Calvary (Golgotha). Views of scholars differOver the past two hundred years, however, the image of Jesus among historical scholars has come to be very different than the common image of Jesus that was based on the gospels. Historians generally describe Jesus as a healer who preached the restoration of Yahweh's kingdom. Most historians agree he was baptized by John the Baptist.The titles "Divine", "Son of God", "God", "God from God", "Lord", "Redeemer", "Liberator", and "Saviour of the World" were all applied to Roman emperors. Some scholars hypothesize that Jesus led a new apocalyptic sect. Contemporary textual critic Bart D. Ehrman cites numerous places where the gospels, and other New Testament books, were apparently altered by Christian amateurish scribes. The scribes worked to make the gospels more similar and to remove verses that could be taken to support unorthodox beliefs common in early Christianity. For example, Luke portrays Jesus as implacable in the face of his crucifixion, contrary to Mark, which portrays him in agony. A few scholars have questioned the existence of Jesus as an actual historical figure. Nevertheless, such views are regarded as effectively refuted by almost all Biblical scholars and historians. Widely differing beliefs about JesusChristian views of Jesus vary. Many early Christian groups and theologians held differing views of Jesus.Judaism holds the idea of Jesus being God, or part of a Trinity, or a mediator to God, to be heresy. Judaism also holds that Jesus is not the Messiah, arguing that he had not fulfilled the Messianic prophecies in the Tanakh nor embodied the personal qualifications of the Messiah. Judaism states that Jesus did not fulfil the requirements set by the Torah to prove that he was a prophet, and Judaism states that no prophet or dreamer can contradict the laws already stated in the Torah, which Judaism states Jesus did. Hindu views: The International Society for Krishna Consciousness considers Jesus to be the beloved son of Krishna who came down to Earth to preach God Consciousness. Paramahansa Yogananda taught that Jesus was the reincarnation of Elisha and a student of John the Baptist, the reincarnation of Elijah. Buddhist views of Jesus differ. The New Age movement entertains a wide variety of views on Jesus. According to the early 20th century teachings of the Ahmadi Muslims of Kashmir and Punjab, Jesus did not die on the cross, but after his apparent death and resurrection he journeyed to Kashmir, and that he then remained in India for the rest of his life. The general notion of Jesus in Kashmir is older than the Ahmadi tradition. Following Jesus' death of natural causes "at the ripe old age of 120 years," the Jesus of Ahmadi doctrine was then laid to rest in Srinagar, in a tomb of a sage known locally as Yuz Asaf (which in Kashmiri means "Son of Yuz," i.e. Joseph). Literature Ay: Yogananda, Paramahansa. Autobiography of a Yogi. 1st ed. New York: Theosophical, 1946. Online. [oaks.nvg.org/pv6bk12.html] Co: Watson, Burton, tr. The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu. New York: Columbia University Press, 1968. Ebu: Encyclopaedia Britannica. Encyclopaedia Britannica 2006 Ultimate Reference Suite DVD. London: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2006. Eksy: May, Rollo, ed. Eksistensiell psykologi. Oslo: Gyldendal, 1971. (Existential Psychology, New York: Random House, 1961). On: Mata, Daya. "Only Love". Los Angeles: Self-Realization Fellowship, 1976. Oq: Ratcliffe, Susan, ed. The Oxford Dictionary of Thematic Quotations. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pa: Yogananda, Paramahansa. Autobiography of a Yogi. 11th ed. Los Angeles: Self-Realization Fellowship, 1971. Toh: Sirnes, Tollak. - at vi skal elske hverandre (- that we shall love each other). Oslo: Gyldendal, 1968. We: Koestline, Henry. What Jesus Said about It. New York: Signet, 1970. USER'S GUIDE to abbreviations, the site's bibliography, letter codes, dictionaries, site design and navigation, tips for searching the site and page referrals. [LINK] DISCLAIMER: [LINK] © 20062008, Tormod Kinnes. All rights reserved. [E-MAIL] | ||||||||||||||||||||||