Monday, May 6, 2013
Christianity and its repression
Christianity tends to cause followers to repress their feelings. For
example, there is often a pressure being put on people to forgive others
in Christian circles, without giving them room to come to terms with
their feelings. Maybe those who condemn others for not forgiving have
forgotten or ignored the fact that the book of psalms has a number of
examples of the psalmists calling upon God to take revenge of their
enemies or destroy their enemies. It is testimony that humans need to
find outlets for expressing their hurts and sufferings in safe ways. It
is unfortunate that there are Christians today who do not encourage
others to feel their feelings and instead shame them for not following
their so-called "positive" messages about forgiving others and moving
on, without giving them freedom to do so in their own time and space.
This only tends to cause the feelings of resentment to bottle up and
explode later on. Maybe it is why Christians who repress their own
feelings become callous towards others because they have not been in
touch with their own humanity too.
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