Faith, Family & Freedom: Part 19‏ of 21

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We typically lay the blame for German atrocities in World War II primarily at the feet of the country's leaders. But I contend that the worldview, values, and conduct of a vast number of Germany's populace are to blame, as much as Hitler's Nazi Party. And make no mistake, if our government begins to euthanize millions of senior citizens and the disabled through the rationing of health care, most of the American people will be as responsible as any doctors and politicians because we allowed the foundation to be laid with the desire for abortion on demand and the right to die. We are allowing our children to be imbued with postmodernism, moral relativism, situational ethics, and the end-justifies-the-means rationalization - much like the German citizens did in the 1920's and 1930's leading up to the Holocaust of the 1940's.

In the midst of a lost culture, we must stand up for righteousness and oppose abortion, active euthanasia and the attempt to eliminate our Biblical, parental authority. Our first step is to "see to it that no one enslaves you through philosophy and empty deceit according to human tradition, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to the Messiah" (Colossians 2:8). Then we must take action: fight the implementation of hate-crime laws and the efforts to shut down Christian radio, and oppose evil because it goes against God's character and nature. We may indeed be past the point of restoring our culture and we must focus on how to preserve our families for generations to come. We must evangelize, disciple, and raise up those who can lead the church and our nation through the increasing perilous times that are upon us.

In this segment we will learn about the twisted views of the individual considered to be the "father of modern psychology" and how today, our society is paying a high price for his radical views and philosophies - and indeed suffering the consequences...

"Faith, Family & Freedom: Our American Values Under Fire"

Sigmund Freud

(1856-1939)

“To demolish religion with a psychoanalytical weapon,” Freud biographer Peter Gay reported, “had been on Freud’s agenda for many years.” Sigmund Freud, like Friedrich Nietzsche who strongly influenced him, hated God and Christianity. In his own book, The Future of an Illusion, Freud describes his “absolutely negative attitude toward religion, in every form and dilution.”

As Dr. Benjamin Wiker points out in Ten Books That Screwed up the World:

"We cannot forget Nietzsche’s assumption that religion was an entirely human creation. Since Freud read Nietzsche, this may have done as much as anything to help form his presentation of religion in The Future of an Illusion".

With that viewpoint at the core of Freud’s thinking, Wiker goes on to describe the psychoanalyst’s resultant, perverted worldview:

"His rebellion took the form of baptizing as natural the most hideously unnatural sins, sins condemned by every society as the most unholy and unthinkable… Freud damned as unnatural the Christian-based morality of Western society".

Freud himself points out several of these “unholy and unthinkable” inclinations: “Among these instinctual wishes are those of incest, cannibalism, and lust for killing.” Freud believed that it is the people who reject a Biblical worldview and follower their “natural” desires that are truly sane. As Dr. Wicker explains:

"He [Freud] claimed that psychological disorders were the result of the unnatural repression of our naturally unholy and anti-social desires, and that some people just couldn’t handle the repression… Therefore, neurotics are the only sane people because they react to unnatural frustration by training to reclaim their original, natural, asocial and amoral state. The result: the anti-social psychopath who kills without conscience is the most natural of all. The interesting effect of Freud’s proclamation that evil is natural was the seemingly unintended consequence of making psychopathic insanity natural".

The word “psychology” derives from the Greek word “psyche,” the study of the soul – which, ironically, should be impossible for Secular Humanistic psychologists who deny the spiritual world and the soul. Author Alan Bloom notes that for Secular Humanists “the self is the modern substitute for the soul.” And when humanists refer to the mind, they really mean the brain.

Contrast the significance that the Christian worldview places on this realm which Freud insists doesn’t even exist. The Biblical worldview, of course, acknowledges both the spiritual and natural worlds. The brain is part of the natural world, but the mind and heart, as described in the Bible, are connected to the soul – the spiritual side of man.

The people who listen to Freud and his devotees – believing that sinful thoughts and impulses are natural instead of understanding that their guilt is a sign they have violated the character and nature of God – are headed in a seriously wrong direction. According to the biblical book of Romans, the moral law is written on the heart and mind of every person – thus the conscience. “Con” means with and “science” means knowledge. So, every time people sin or rebel against God, they do so with knowing it is wrong and that it offends our Holy and Just God. They can either accept the guilty feeling of the law that accuses them of their transgressions when they sin, or they can excuse the guilty feeling and learn to ignore it. If they ignore the guilt long enough or often enough, they will become people “speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron” (1 Timothy 4:2). The end result can be true insanity if their rebellion against God goes too far.

Throughout this series we have seen how one’s worldview impacts not only a person’s public life but also his or her personal life. Freud’s impact as “the father of psychoanalytic theory” has ripped through psychological thinking and into the general population, leaving bizarre thoughts and actions in its wake. David Noebel cites the book, The Road to Malpsychia: Humanistic Psychology and Our Discontent, which reports:

Milton reveals that Harvard’s Timothy Leary routinely had sex with his patients, took psilocybin and LSD, pushed drugs on his own students, and entertained the goal of having four million Americans turned on to LSD.

Humanist, psychologist, and member of the Frankfurt School, Erich Fromm greatly respected Freud. And while disagreeing in some areas, Fromm and Freud were untied in their attack on Christianity. Fromm declared, “Man challenges the supreme power of God, and he is able to challenge it because he is potentially God.”

Psychologist Abraham Maslow developed the idea of self-actualization – which means a person’s innate goodness has evolved, he claimed that very few people ever reach the state of being self-actualized. Among those that he said had reached this state include two individuals discussed earlier in this series: William James and Aldous Huxley. Maslow suggests “I propose that we explore the consequences of observing whatever our best specimens choose, and then assuming that these are the highest values for all mankind.” Does this mean that when U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an attorney for the ACLU in 1977 and argued for lowering the sex age limit to twelve she was following the leadership of someone was self-actualized? I suggest that the reality is that humanists look to perverts to set the standards because they’re the ones who do not reject their “natural instincts” and are humanistically the “truly sane.”

The Bible declares that all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. It also holds that the days will become increasingly wicked, with people doing what is right in their own eyes, calling evil good and good evil. Indeed, Freud, Maslow, Fromm, and others in their line of psychologists prove that this has become true. Calling “good evil and evil good,” they declare Christians insane and those who act out compulsions such as child-molestation and murder sane.

David Noebel summarizes the contrast between the Biblical worldview and humanistic psychology:

Secular Humanists make three assumptions about the self, mind, and mental processes: 1) we are good by nature and therefore perfectible; 2) society and its social institutions are responsible for the evil we do; and 3) mental health can be restored to those who get in touch with their inner (good) self. While other worldviews may agree with some or all of these premises, Christians disagree with all three. Christians insist that we must admit our own sinful nature and take responsibility for our immoral acts instead of blaming someone or something else. Humanist psychology, however, allows us to intellectually deny responsibility for our behavior and moral choices.

As Benjamin Wiker points out, “the greatest crimes in the history of mankind came not from those in thrall to the ‘illusion’ [as Freud called Christianity] of Judaism and Christianity, but from those who claimed to be atheistic, scientific socialists.” In early 2009, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security released a report that labeled as “extremists” those opposed to abortion, the unconstitutional increase in the size and scope of the federal government, the weakening of America’s national sovereignty, infringement of the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution’s right to bear and keep arms, and even those who simply show interest in “end times prophecies.” It is not a great leap for a government to go from labeling opposition as “extremists” to labeling them “terrorists” and taking punitive action against them. In June 2009, Rep. Steven LaTourette (R-OH) cited e-mails in which an attorney with President Obama’s auto task force called an attorney representing their senior bondholders of Chrysler a “terrorist.”

As you’ve seen, one of the 21 people we are studying in this series, William James, is the man behind the idea of mandatory national service for America’s youth and founder of the first American psychological laboratory. What better way to “cure” America’s young people from their mental illness derived from the influence of parents and churches than to be subjected to the social justice curriculum written by the likes of Bill Ayers? If you harbor any doubt that there are psychologists, educational elite, elected and government officials who see America’s parents as the threat to their worldview, then consider the following quote from John Stienbacher during a 1972 keynote address presented to the Association for Childhood Education International:

Dr. Pierce, professor of Education and Psychology at Harvard University has said, “Every child who enters school at the age of five is mentally ill because he enters school with an allegiance toward our elected officials, our founding fathers, our institutions, the preservation of this form of government that we have, patriotism, nationalism, and sovereignty. All this proves that the children are sick, because a truly well individual is one who has rejected all of those things and is what I would call the true international child of the future.”

In concert with Pierce’s notion, Hillary Clinton has for years been advocating for the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child. If ever ratified by the U.S. Senate, parental authority will be put in the place Pierce and other such Freudians would have it: nowhere. It would be eliminated! Several years ago, Harper’s magazine revealed Clinton’s radical, anti-family agenda in “Child Saver: What She Will Not Help the Family”:

The traditional family is, for the most part, an institution in need of therapy, an institution that stands in the way of children’s rights – an obstacle to enlightened adults… She condemns the State’s assumption of parental responsibilities, not because she has any faith in parents themselves but because she is opposed to the principle of parental authority in any form… Her writings leave the unmistakable impression that it is the family that holds children back; it is the state that sets then free.

Truly, Freud’s hatred of Christianity and the Christian philosophy of family, parental authority and freedom of religion lives on.

Sources:

Sigmund Freud, “The Future of Illusion,” (New York: W.W. Norton, 1961)

Peter Gray, “Freud: A life for our Times,” (New York: W.W. Norton, 1998)

Benjamin Wiker, “Ten Books That Screwed Up the World”

Allan Bloom, “The Closing of the American Mind,” (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988)

Norm Giesler & Peter Bocchino, “Unshakeable Foundations” (Minneapolis, Mn: Bethany Press, 2001)

Erich Fromm, “You Shall be as God’s”, (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1996)

Abraham Maslow, “Toward a Psychology of Being” (New York: Van Norstand Reinhold, 1968)

Noel Sheppard, “California Assembly Speaker: Conservative Talkers are Terrorists”, (newsbusters.com, June 27, 2009)

Brannon Howse, Grave Influence (Worldview Publishing, 2009)

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