Can church be bad for your health?

[coadie]

Originally Posted by Berkley

Church can be bad for your mental health.. ha

Kinda like schools have a duty to build kids self esteem.

The Jews were slaves in Egypt for 400 years. Where are the lawsuits and social justice zealots?

[Aquila]

Originally Posted by coadie

Kinda like schools have a duty to build kids self esteem.

The Jews were slaves in Egypt for 400 years. Where are the lawsuits and social justice zealots?

No one is talking about lawsuits. We're talking about individuals who have experienced a significant degree of spiritual and emotional abuse at the hands of abusive churches and how it effects their spiritual lives and relationship to churches afterwards.

[Jermyn Davidson]

I will go on record as saying, "Yes, attending church can be bad for your health-- mental and physical."

If your church building has asbestos floating in its ventillation system, that can have a terrible effect on your health.


Sometimes, the wrong church for the wrong person can actually drive down their sense well-being, their self-confidence, and create an environment where depression can grab a hold of some saint's life.


Sometimes, the wrong church has all sorts of sin going on-- or maybe not all sorts of sin, but a few people with sin whose actions are unchecked-- under the radar, so that it is never addressed. When your kid gets sucked in to that negative atmosphere, the fruit can only result in rottenness.


These are things I know about, personally.

[Aquila]

Originally Posted by Jermyn Davidson

I will go on record as saying, "Yes, attending church can be bad for your health-- mental and physical."

If your church building has asbestos floating in its ventillation system, that can have a terrible effect on your health.


Sometimes, the wrong church for the wrong person can actually drive down their sense well-being, their self-confidence, and create an environment where depression can grab a hold of some saint's life.


Sometimes, the wrong church has all sorts of sin going on-- or maybe not all sorts of sin, but a few people with sin whose actions are unchecked-- under the radar, so that it is never addressed. When your kid gets sucked in to that negative atmosphere, the fruit can only result in rottenness.


These are things I know about, personally.

Amen.