>>92122039Except you're factually wrong.
First of all, history is full of examples of Christian healing miracles for physical infirmities, including in the gospels themselves. Such healing is obviously supernatural and therefore not reliably under our control, but to say religion "can't heal you" is completely idiotic and naïve.
As for mental illnesses, embracing drug addiction and the materialist brainrot that justifies it IS a mental illness, not a cure. The depressed chasing fake, pharmaceutically-induced neurotransmitter regulation or schizos gaining temporary clarity from thorazine will never be a substitute for the genuine, authentic mental and spiritual healing that comes through grace, trying to cultivate virtue, and prayer. I would know.
>>92122480a) Yes it can. Prayer has quite exhaustively been shown to have positive health effects in the literature, regardless of what you think the causal mechanism might be. Even most atheists I've seen wouldn't dispute this.
b) What's even better than healing your brain is healing your spirit. Which prayer, repentance, etc. does, in preparation for renewed spiritual warfare against the powers and principalities in the heavenly realms. Meds can't do that.
