Psychology Is the Culprit

Ironically, the one culprit which has been the major cause of the rapid and deep slide into immorality in the last forty years is generally promoted rather than opposed by those leading the crusade against immorality.  That culprit is psychology.

Psychology’s redefining of sin as sickness has excused immorality and thus encouraged it.  Instead of being held accountable and called upon to repent, the sinner is diagnosed as in need of “therapy.”  Everything from disobedience to murder is excused these days as some kind of syndrome or addiction.  Adulterers are now “sex addicts” whose insurance covers lengthy “treatment” at Christian psychiatric hospitals.  Christ’s command to “Go and sin no more (Jn 8:11) is “too simplistic” these days.

The explosion of crime, rebellion and immorality has coincided with the exponential growth of psychology since the early 1950s, a grown which is still accelerating.  There was a 43 percent increase in the number of Americans in the 10-19 age bracket committed to psychiatric hospitals from 1980 to 1987, while the number of private psychiatric beds per 100,000 persons more than doubled in the five years from 1983 to 1988.  What a growth industry!  Psychology has been rightly called the only profession that “creates the diseases which it claims to cure.”

Dave Hunt, “The Christian Mission,” The Berean Call, August 1996