If someone in your church was delusional would you go along with that delusion if you thought it would help?
I have in mind the film Lars and the real Woman, where a member of the community ordered an anatomically correct doll on the internet and introduced her to family and neighbors as handicapped and barely speaking English. He would then bring her to church as if she was his girlfriend.
Here’s the episode where she goes to church. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLKposBwkcw&feature=related
I wondered if your church would tolerate this?
This is a really interesting film and it makes some very deep points about life, about people, and about church. Like, how the psychologists always know best now and people are afraid to go against them and follow their consciences anymore, and how people nowadays can ‘make their own reality’, even if real truth becomes a casualty. So much more freedom, or so much more bondage?
Here, you have ‘love’ and ‘truth’ at odds with one another, whereas in actual fact, they are not. For, as I see it, to tell someone the truth is a high expression of love, yes, even if it hurts, even if there’s a ‘kickback’.
How is it that a faith which came about because of a crucified Messiah hasn’t got the guts anymore to tell a person he’s delusional? This isn’t love, it’s fear – fear of going against the psychologists and the new humanist ‘gospel’ of ‘soft love’.
I have to say that, suitably primed, churches would indeed possibly act as the film shows. Anything to keep the peace. Many are, even now, talking about getting rid of ‘blood and gore’ Christianity as offensive. Oh yes. And replacing it with a nice, loving, feminised religion, that offends no one, for the sake of ‘unity’.
Would my church do this? Well, since I am outside of organised religion and we meet in our home now, I don’t think so. It’s too intimate, how we meet, and we love the truth too much. We’ve not quit organised religion to tolerate such things – what are, in effect, lies. Things that have no basis in reality. Neither would I tolerate this delusion, either, because that’s not who I am, and I couldn’t live with a lie for one minute. Sorry, this guy would have to either quit his delusion, or leave.
Interesting, what the film says about where psychology is going – they no longer know what ‘normal’ is and seem to be on a crusade to make ‘anything go’. Surely, when ideas like this are being taken seriously, society is crumbling!
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Lars and the Real Girl
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Sometimes you find love where you’d least expect it. Just ask Lars (Gosling) a sweet but quirky guy who thinks he’s found the girl of his dreams in a life-sized doll named Bianca. Lars is completely content with his artificial girlfriend but when he develops feelings for Margo an attractive co-worker Lars finds himself lost in a hilariously unique love triangle hoping to somehow discover the real …
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