Surprising absolutely no one, Karissa Collins' is experiencing her eleventh bout of severe post partum depression. If only she'd prayed over this earlier, surely the thing that always happens to her because she is floridly mentally ill would not have happened! And don't forget to like and comment. Social media engagement is the only cure.
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So the devil can steal joy, and prayer is the best defense god can provide? Which one is responsible for professional mental healthcare?
I don't believe in religion, but it doesn't seem like such a reach for a devout, god-believing person to believe god created brains with the capacity to develop complex medical advancements and mental health care, which is how god provides for needs, and what god expects them to pursue instead of prayer? If there is a god, s/he'd want people to avail themselves of the amazing things created in the brains s/he designed. Right?
Karissa is using text instead of a carrier pigeon, so why not prayerful pursuit of real medical treatments? Maybe god is up there pissed as hell that these people use prayer instead of the brains god gave them to help them via the resources originating in the brains he gave others. In that framework, god lit the spark that gave us refrigerators and ovens. I s Karissa praying to god to light a fire for cooking and a special request for god to keep her perishables fresh thanks to prayer alone? Prayer can freeze ice cream.
Or were all these advancements created by satan? Because, if so, that same logic turns her social media and constant phone use into her reliance on the devil's tool. Time to get an app for her carrier pigeon.
Not to mention, if god is omnibenevolent, omnipotent and omniscient, why can't s/he just put a postpartum force field around her to keep satan from stealing her mind and joy? Why does he need fervent prayer in the "fourth trimester", his omniscience would allow him to know what she's going through, the omni-benevolence (mercifulness) would encourage him to help, and the omnipotence would get the job done. Isn't that the way the abrahamic god is billed in the NT and OT? God don't need no tots and pears. but maybe some prayers of thanks and ego boosting recognition of his skillz.
This lunacy just boggles my mind. Maybe her way makes sense to someone who isn't too cynical to buy into all this. But the fundie religious way makes no sense to me. These people are in the world and of the world. They haven't cloistered themselves away in service of extreme self-reliance, the prayers-only stuff makes sense in those cultures and also cloistered intentional communities.
I do hope this is her last child, because she's one intense mental break away from an andrea yates situation. Sad stuff. Maybe it's time for them to stop buying absurd costume-outfits for their kids and invest a little money in some home and/or child care help a few days a week.
Sorry for the novel, I just struggle to make all the contradictions make sense.
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I didn't want to double post so this is going to be looooooong, sorry.
Have we talked about Jason Duggar and his business fraud yet?
Something tells me that a poster of the 10 Commandments was never far from the duggar school of the dining room table, and it's almost like familiarity with those words and concepts has no bearing on a lying, cheating,, ill-gotten money grubber cloaked in the holiest of thou togs.
Don't get me wrong. This is gross, but is entirely unsurprising. Dim Bulb and the fam exude "rules for thee and not for me" out of every pore.
