"Ross Cassell -> Ross Sauer"  wrote in
news:7101$HOLYSMOKE{at}JamNNTPd:

 RC>>> Do you not try to show them the errors of their ways by shoving
 RC>>> science into their faces?

 RS>> What do you prefer, your doctor to diagnose what's wrong with
 RC>   you based on RS> science, or if that doctor believes in "Jesus
 RC>   casting out demons" and RS> "healing you in the name of Jesus
 RC>   Christ?"

 RC> I merely proved a point..

 RC> Both sides are guilty of what each accuses the other of doing.

 RC> See what reality is exposed when you try to have your cake and eat it
 RC> too?

Except the cake I have exists.
(In fact I made one this afternoon.) 

All you have is some preacher telling you there is a cake, but you have to
worship his deity, give him money and then die before you can have any of
the cake that you don't even know actually exists.

Thus above what I said, in the Bible, even in the New Testament, those
people with mental illness or sicknesses were "possessed by demons."

These people were not stupid, at least most of them.

But they were ignorant.
They had no idea what brain chemistry was, much less how to control
aberrations.
And they had no clue whatosever about disease germs.

So it was shuffled off to a supernatural mechanism, just like lightning,
volcanos and earthquakes.

--- Xnews/5.04.25