Religion/GOD - people suffering from depression/ anxiety and mental illnesses?
A lot of people suffered mental anguish in the Bible. Thanks for asking the question. I would be very interested in reading the responses. I've never done a study on this before, but it is high time someone did. Attributing mental illness to demons is an unbelievably stupid supposition. If I have time I will come back to this question with more thoughts and Bible verses. Thanks again for asking. Edit: If mental illness (clinical depression, bipolar, schizophrenia etc.) are caused by demons then so would be epilepsy, altzheimers, Parkinson's disease etc. all of which we know are medical conditions which affect the brain and respond to drug treatment, proof that they are physical conditions which happen to affect the brain and/or other parts of the body.
Religion in the 1920's and the Great Depression?
In the 1920s religion was still politicaly important and although many cultures from all over the world were already in America at that time Christianity took a dim view of them as multiculturalism was not something to be proud of in those times. Christianity was the dominant religion in America, mainly Prodestant. The Aboriginal residental school system were still in place and inflicting Christianity, labour and abuse on those children at the time, (this was the far right-wing side of how Christianity existed in those times). However, many religions new to Aericans were coming into the country at this time such as Hindus, Buddhists, and Muslims. Some found these people and their traditions interesting and resulted in some 'forign' religions to set up centres in America and Canada, but for the most part they were looked down upon by the Christian population at large. The Great Depression was the ten year aftermath of the 'Roaring 20s' lasting from 1929 until the outbreak of World War II in 1938-1939. The economy boosted with new invensions and innovations after World War I as everyone wanted these new machines. But then everyone who was going to get these products had done so and those who could not efford them would not be getting them asuch as washing machines, dryres, refridgerators and alike. Once everyone had one of each they did not need to get more and this led to economic dicline which began the Great Depression. The economy crashed, people lost their money in investments and millions became homeless. With this immense decline in sustainability Nazism was born to its fullest. Adalf Hitler convinced the German people that the Jews and Gypsies were responcible for the Great Depression and easily began a dictatorship unfriendly towards these minorities and this led to World War 2.