Recent Threads / True Mental Health...

[Volokh, Eugene]

	Folks:  I like to think that the list is quite inclusive and
pluralistic when it comes to viewpoints about the law of government and
religion.  But it is not a place to discuss theology -- or psychology --
as such.  There are plenty of places online, I'm sure, that are devoted
to precisely those questions.  This just isn't one of them.

	Eugene


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	From: religionlaw-bounces at lists.ucla.edu
[mailto:religionlaw-bounces at lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of John Lofton
	Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 7:39 PM
	To: religionlaw at lists.ucla.edu
	Subject: Re: Recent Threads / True Mental Health...
	
	
	Tolerance, Ed, tolerance; be more diverse, more pluralistic,
more inclusive. JL
	
	
	John Lofton, Editor, TheAmericanView.com
	Recovering Republican
	
	"Accursed is that peace of which revolt from God is the bond,
and blessed are those contentions by which it is necessary to maintain
the kingdom of Christ." -- John Calvin.


	-----Original Message-----
	From: Ed Brayton <stcynic at crystalauto.com>
	To: 'Law & Religion issues for Law Academics'
<religionlaw at lists.ucla.edu>
	Sent: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 10:18 pm
	Subject: RE: Recent Threads / True Mental Health...
	
	
	The first amendment applies to what the government can do, not
to what is acceptable on a private listserv. This list is for discussion
of religion and law, not for you to harangue and proselytize. Surely
that shouldn't need to be explained on this list of all places.
	 
	Ed Brayton
	 
	-----Original Message-----
	From: religionlaw-bounces at lists.ucla.edu
[mailto:religionlaw-bounces at lists.ucla.edu
<mailto:religionlaw-bounces at lists.ucla.edu?> ] On Behalf Of John Lofton
	Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 9:51 PM
	To: religionlaw at lists.ucla.edu
	Subject: Re: Recent Threads / True Mental Health...
	
	
	Chill, Ed, it's called free speech, the free exercise of
religion, First Amendment, remember? Be more tolerant, please...JL
	
	
	John Lofton, Editor, TheAmericanView.com
	Recovering Republican
	
	"Accursed is that peace of which revolt from God is the bond,
and blessed are those contentions by which it is necessary to maintain
the kingdom of Christ." -- John Calvin.


	-----Original Message-----
	From: Ed Brayton <stcynic at crystalauto.com>
	To: 'Law & Religion issues for Law Academics'
<religionlaw at lists.ucla.edu>
	Sent: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 6:20 pm
	Subject: RE: Recent Threads / True Mental Health...
	
	
	Is this really the appropriate list for such preaching? I know
it damn well isn't the appropriate list to be declaring some members of
the list mentally ill.
	 
	Ed Brayton
	 
	-----Original Message-----
	From: religionlaw-bounces at lists.ucla.edu
[mailto:religionlaw-bounces at lists.ucla.edu
<mailto:religionlaw-bounces at lists.ucla.edu?> ] On Behalf Of John Lofton
	Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 5:20 PM
	To: religionlaw at lists.ucla.edu
	Subject: Re: Recent Threads / True Mental Health...
	
	
	Simple indeed -- if you have faith. And all those secular
shrinks have been  doing a great job, right? In fact, unbelief IS a
mental illness since it denies reality, God's reality, the only reality
there is. We all live in God's world and are governed by His Law,
whether you believe this or not. God's Truth is not dependent upon the
belief of a man to be true. You don't have to believe in Hell to go
there.
	
	
	John Lofton, Editor, TheAmericanView.com
	Recovering Republican
	
	-----Original Message-----
	From: Susan Freiman <susan.freiman.law.65 at aya.yale.edu>
	To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics
<religionlaw at lists.ucla.edu>
	Sent: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 12:38 am
	Subject: Re: Recent Threads / True Mental Health...
	
	
	Wow.  So simple.  And just think how many doctors have been
struggling 
	for so long to help the mentally ill.
	
	Susan
	
	John Lofton wrote:
	> True "mental health" is believing God when He says in Psalm
111:10: 
	> "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good
understanding 
	> have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth
for ever." 
	> Your gratuituous if-my-net-doesn't-catch-it-it-is-not-a-fish, 
	> people-I-disagree-with-are-crazy attitude is one more example
of why 
	> (literally) I thank God I never went to college.
	> John Lofton, Editor, TheAmericanView.com
	> Recovering Republican
	>
	> "Accursed is that peace of which revolt from God is the bond,
and 
	> blessed are those contentions by which it is necessary to
maintain the 
	> kingdom of Christ." -- John Calvin.
	>
	>
	> -----Original Message-----
	> From: FRAP428 at aol.com
	> To: religionlaw at lists.ucla.edu
	> Sent: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 10:45 am
	> Subject: Re: Recent Threads
	>
	> I am certainly well aware that Christian Reconstructionists
are a 
	> small minority; however, the line between some of their
beliefs and 
	> those of some (please note both uses of the word some) members
of the 
	> Christian Right may not be particularly bright (more of a
continuum). 
	> Sort of like the line between believers who are truly mentally
unwell 
	> and believers who are somewhat unbalanced and believers who
just have 
	> problems. I would posit that the continuum regarding the
mental health 
	> of believers is similar to that of the population at large
and/or that 
	> of nonbelievers.
	>  
	> Frances Paterson, J.D., Ed.D.
	> Professor
	> Department of Curriculum, Leadership, and Technology
	> College of Education
	> Valdosta State University
	> Valdosta, GA 31698-0090
	>
	>
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