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On a Veteran\u2019s Day broadcast, two of America\u2019s most influential televangelists claimed that good Christians can\u2019t get PTSD. Kenneth Copeland, who is famous for\u00a0\u00a0pitching a fit<\/a>\u00a0when a senator tried to investigate his nonprofits and for\u00a0inspiring<\/a>\u00a0a measles outbreak, said, \u201cAny of you suffering from PTSD right now, you listen to me. You get rid of that right now. You don\u2019t take drugs to get rid of it, it doesn\u2019t take psychology; that promise right there [in the Bible] will get rid of it.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
Copeland\u2019s guest, conservative revisionist historian David Barton, agreed, adding, \u201cWe used to, in the pulpit, understand the difference between a just war and an unjust war. And there\u2019s a biblical difference, and when you do it God\u2019s way, not only are you guiltless for having done that, you\u2019re esteemed.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
Barton believes that anybody who behaves \u201cbiblically\u201d during war can\u2019t get PTSD. Unfortunately, there is a logical flip side to this statement: someone whohas<\/em>\u00a0PTSD must have not been biblical in his actions, and thus he is ultimately responsible for his own PTSD.<\/span><\/div>\n
Understandably, a lot of people are upset by Barton and Copeland\u2019s assertion. Even the staunchly conservative\u00a0\u00a0Gospel Coalition<\/a>\u00a0(TGC) and America\u2019s largest Protestant denomination, the\u00a0\u00a0Southern Baptist Convention<\/a>\u00a0(SBC), made no bones about their distaste for Copeland and Barton, the former calling them \u201cprofoundly stupid,\u201d the latter \u201ccallow and doltish.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
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On a Veteran\u2019s Day broadcast, two of America\u2019s most influential televangelists claimed that good Christians can\u2019t get PTSD. Kenneth Copeland, who is famous for\u00a0\u00a0pitching a fit\u00a0when a senator tried to investigate his nonprofits and for\u00a0inspiring\u00a0a measles outbreak, said, \u201cAny of you suffering from PTSD right now, you listen to me. You get rid of that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n(Some) Evangelicals Claim 'Good Christians' Can't Get PTSD<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"On a Veteran\u2019s Day broadcast, two of America\u2019s most influential televangelists claimed that good Christians can\u2019t get PTSD. 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