Most of the mentally ill we hear about today are perpetrators of atrocious acts of violence. Considering that the present population of the world was estimated to be about 8 billion people by the United Nations in 2022. Such criminal acts seem to be limited in scope. Let us all remember, however, that there is a vast army of mentally ill people walking among us and behaving as if they are actually sane. They never announce to anyone that they are crazy. In fact, they believe that they are actually normal. But any average person who carefully observes them will conclude that these people belong somewhere in the Twilight Zone.
Seven people, including an unborn baby, have been killed in a shooting at a Jehovah’s Witness meeting hall in the German city of Hamburg, police say.
They say the gunman acted alone in Thursday’s attack, and later took his own life. His motives are unknown. The suspect, named only as Philipp F, is said to have had “ill feelings” towards the religious community, of which he had previously been a member. Video has emerged appearing to show him firing through a window of the hall. At a briefing on Friday, the police said four men and two women were shot dead. All the dead were German nationals. Eight people were injured, four seriously. A Ugandan and a Ukrainian were among those hurt. A woman who was seven months pregnant was shot – killing her unborn baby. The mother survived.
By Jenny Hill in Hamburg & Jaroslav Lukiv in London BBC News.
Many years ago, I encountered a mentally ill person in church, and the experience was poignant. What I have observed over several decades is that emotionally disturbed women are usually extremely beautiful. This is simply inexplicable. It is as if Mother Nature attempts to compensate for a flawed psyche with genes that conceal such a disability. This representation of the fairer sex was no exception to that general rule. Which had been carefully formulated in my mind. She was tall, slender, exquisitely beautiful, and seemed every inch to be a queen. I couldn’t help noticing that she came to church with a tall, handsome African male. I probably saw them together about four times at the most. Then, after about three months, he disappeared. Although other members were telling me that she had been twice married and divorced. This negative in her psychosocial history didn’t seem substantive enough to dissuade me. One Sabbath morning, while sitting on the bench immediately behind her, I handed her a note that said: “Your outfit does you wonderful justice. I will talk to you myself if you don’t have a husband.” She took the note and gave me a big smile of encouragement. Thereafter, she started attending my bible class. It would have been difficult for me not to observe that she was ultra-sensitive. Exhibiting limited composure whenever the class delved into the issue of sin and its consequences.
One morning, the pastor visited my class. An occasional gesture on his part. However, she jubilantly crowed on this occasion: “I am glad the pastor is here.” As if, in her personal view, he was present to subdue my apparent heresy. After a few weeks, she stopped attending my class completely. When I saw her next, I questioned her absence and said: “Sister Brown, you have abandoned me?” “No, I haven’t she replied, it’s just a few things.” Those ‘few things’ were never discussed with me. A posture that is typical of the mentally ill. They cannot talk about things that touch them deeply because they fear seeming ridiculous. As time progressed, she returned to my class dressed in a fur coat, wearing a ring on her index finger, and looking as beautiful as a rose. Sometimes, I wonder if the mentally ill can be redeemed. Since they have no concept of personal responsibility. A brutal reality clearly demonstrated at Calvary.
“Then one of the criminals who were hanged blasphemed Him, saying, “If You are the Christ, save Yourself and us.” But the other, answering, rebuked him, saying, “Do you not even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation? And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward of our deeds; but this Man has done nothing wrong.” Then he said to Jesus, “Lord, remember me when You come into Your kingdom.” And Jesus said to him, “Assuredly, I say to you today, you will be with Me in Paradise.”
The approach of modern Psychology is in stark contrast to the realities of divine revelation.
Mental disorders that affect a person’s beliefs and other cognitive abilities include psychoses such as schizophrenia, psychotic depression, and bipolar affective disorder. Individuals with personality disorders should be held morally responsible for their actions, as judgments of responsibility are judgments about the connection between an agent and an action and this connection is not affected by personality disorders. On the other hand, individuals with a psychopathic personality cannot understand morality and moral concerns and should not be blamed when they act wrongly. Likewise, severe mental disorders such as schizophrenia can exonerate persons from moral responsibility for their actions in fairly straightforward ways related to compulsion and ignorance.
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE: OFFICE OF JUSTICE PROGRAMS: Rules of Insanity: Moral Responsibility and the Mentally Ill Offender, 1996.
Can our sinful world ever be delivered from its multitudinous catalog of deceptions and delusions?
“If a person sins, and commits any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the Lord, though he does not know it, yet he is guilty and shall bear his iniquity.” Leviticus 5:17 (NKJV).
“If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.” 1John 1:8-10
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