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Dr. John MacArthur is an American pastor, author of the new book "The War on Children" — and a man who doesn’t believe common mental diagnoses are real.
MacArthur had recently gone viral on X, formerly known as Twitter, for his comments on the latter.
“There’s no such thing as PTSD, there’s no such thing as OCD, there’s no such thing as ADHD. Those are noble lies to basically give the excuse to, in the end of the day, to medicate people,” MacArthur said in the viral clip, adding, “And Big Pharma is in charge of a lot of that.”
While he’s faced severe backlash on social media from Christians who claim this thinking is dangerous, he explains to Allie Beth Stuckey why he said what he said.
“The brain can be sick. The brain can be damaged. You can have a tumor. You can have encephalitis. You can have a brain problem,” MacArthur tells Stuckey. “The mind is something completely different. The mind is transcendent. You can’t fix the mind with a chemical. You can wound the brain. And that’s what’s coming out now in psychiatry.”
According to MacArthur, the idea that a medication could fix “the chemical imbalance” in your brain was “a useful lie” all along.
“Is there post-traumatic stress? Of course. Is it a brain syndrome? No. Is there ADHD? Are there kids who have trouble paying attention, trouble sitting still? Yeah, I was one of them. Is it a brain problem? No. What about obsessive compulsive problems, is that a brain disorder? No,” MacArthur explains.
“The culture’s bent is to say, ‘Hey, it’s not your fault, it’s not your fault, you’ve got a disorder,’” he continues. “PTSD is really grief. It’s horrendous grief. It’s survival guilt. It’s having watched your buddies blown to pieces. You got to deal with that grief. But putting a chemical into your body that will alter your brain, that’s what’s becoming the issue now.”
“If you want to solve your mind problems, you’ve got to find love, joy, peace, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, self-control. Those are spiritual virtues that are available in Christ. Don’t turn to chemicals. Turn to Christ,” MacArthur says.
Stuckey isn’t one of his critics.
“We’ve had psychiatrists on the show say the same thing that you said, by the way, that actually we are causing a lot of harm, especially to children by diagnosing or medicalizing every single behavior that doesn’t fit perfectly into a classroom or doesn’t fall in line with this uniform range of normal.”
“It is actually causing side effects in these kids, in these veterans that actually make it worse than what they were dealing with before,” she comments.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson is making no apologies for his strong Christian faith.
Almost immediately after the Louisiana Republican won the speakership on Wednesday, Democrats and the media began hammering him. One issue in particular — gay marriage — has received more attention than others.
In the mid-2000s, Johnson was an attorney for a conservative Christian legal advocacy group, today known as the Alliance Defending Freedom. During his tenure with the organization, Johnson defended a traditional Christian view of marriage and negatively spoke about homosexuality. At the time, most politicians did not openly support gay marriage, many states had laws against gay marriage, and it was around the time that the Supreme Court ruled in Lawrence v. Texas that sodomy laws are unconstitutional.
Johnson is facing backlash for his comments because CNN unearthed them after he became speaker. The news outlet, however, failed to establish the social and political context in which Johnson made the comments. The failure to contextualize allowed CNN to claim that Johnson's "anti-gay rhetoric was harsh." In reality, it was normal for the time.
Fox News host Sean Hannity asked Johnson about the backlash on Thursday. In response, Johnson defended his Christian worldview.
"I am a rule-of-law guy. I made a career defending the rule of law. I respect the rule of law. When the Supreme Court issued the Obergefell opinion, that became the law of the land," Johnson said.
"But I also genuinely love all people regardless of their lifestyle choices. This is not about the people themselves. I am a Bible-believing Christian," he declared. "Someone asked me today in the media, they said, 'It's curious, people are curious. What does Mike Johnson think about any issue under the sun?' I said, 'Well, go pick up a Bible off your shelf and read it — that's my worldview.' That's what I believe, and so I make no apologies for it.
"That's my personal worldview," he clarified.
Johnson went on to explain that there are differences between personal convictions and the law, but his only agenda as speaker is "to do what's best for the American people and to defend the rule of law."
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'The First Amendment’s protections belong to all, not just to speakers whose motives the government finds worthy,' the ruling states.How To Parent Through Pride Month
Families need a plan of action during pride month. My husband and I outlined how to encourage our children in the truth this June.'Before white people came to this land, there were no jails, no homelessness,' self-described 'Writer & Reporter' declares
Self-described "Writer & Reporter" Simon Moya-Smith, who indicates that he is "Oglala & Chicano," declared in a tweet that prior to the arrival of white people, homelessness was not a problem and there were not any laws against homosexuality and abortion.
"Before white people came to this land, there were no jails, no homelessness, no laws against homosexuality or abortion. For thousands of years, Indigenous peoples emphasized health, housing, freedom to love who you love and the fact that we need Mother Earth. She doesn't need us," Moya-Smith wrote.
\u201cBefore white people came to this land, there were no jails, no homelessness, no laws against homosexuality or abortion. For thousands of years, Indigenous peoples emphasized health, housing, freedom to love who you love and the fact that we need Mother Earth. She doesn\u2019t need us.\u201d— Simon Moya-Smith (@Simon Moya-Smith) 1677904464
An account responded to the post by writing, "Yea they just scalped people and burned them alive."
"So, here's the myth re: scalping: white men scalped Natives after a massacre & took them as trophies back to Europe. White, balding men had little to nothing to scalp. But Natives presumed that’s how white men celebrated a victory. So Natives scalped them back to send a message," Moya-Smith tweeted in response.
He acknowledged that Native Americans also battled each other other.
"Natives fought each other, no argument. But the Lakota did not try to convert the Cherokee to Lakota. The Cherokee did not try to monopolize corn," he tweeted. "But you are right about one thing: we scalped the white man right back."
\u201c@Dulcelibertyy This is literally an argument my elders answered in the \u201870s. Natives fought each other, no argument. But the Lakota did not try to convert the Cherokee to Lakota. The Cherokee did not try to monopolize corn. But you are right about one thing: we scalped the white man right back.\u201d— Simon Moya-Smith (@Simon Moya-Smith) 1678079018
Moya-Smith has asserted that regardless of where someone lives on the continent of North America, they are residing "on stolen Native land."
He has objected to the description of the U.S. as "a land of immigrants," tweeting, "Wrong. Don't put a period there… The U.S. is a land of immigrants AND peoples who were brought here against their will and the Indigenous peoples who've been here since time immemorial. #BlackHistoryMonth"
\u201c\u201cWe are a land of immigrants.\u201d -@NBCNews correspondent.\n\nWrong. Don\u2019t put a period there\u2026\n\nThe U.S. is a land of immigrants AND peoples who were brought here against their will and the Indigenous peoples who\u2019ve been here since time immemorial. #BlackHistoryMonth\u201d— Simon Moya-Smith (@Simon Moya-Smith) 1677211418
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