OMG! Preachers blame veterans for PTSD on Veterans' Day

OMG! Preachers blame veterans for PTSD on Veterans' Day
Wounded Times
Kathie Costos
November 13, 2013

Stunning how little these fools know about what is in the Bible about PTSD and all they had to do was read the Psalms of David to see it in his words.

They would have understood what it was when they read this among many others.

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
31 In You, O Lord, I put my trust;
Let me never be ashamed;
Deliver me in Your righteousness.
2 Bow down Your ear to me,
Deliver me speedily;
Be my rock of refuge,
A fortress of defense to save me.
3 For You are my rock and my fortress;
Therefore, for Your name’s sake,
Lead me and guide me.
4 Pull me out of the net which they have secretly laid for me,
For You are my strength.
5 Into Your hand I commit my spirit;
You have redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.
6 I have hated those who regard useless idols;
But I trust in the Lord.
7 I will be glad and rejoice in Your mercy,
For You have considered my trouble;
You have known my soul in adversities,
8 And have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy;
You have set my feet in a wide place.
9 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble;
My eye wastes away with grief,
Yes, my soul and my body!
10 For my life is spent with grief,
And my years with sighing;
My strength fails because of my iniquity,
And my bones waste away.
11 I am a reproach among all my enemies,
But especially among my neighbors,
And am repulsive to my acquaintances;
Those who see me outside flee from me.
12 I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind;
I am like a broken vessel.
13 For I hear the slander of many;
Fear is on every side;
While they take counsel together against me,
They scheme to take away my life.
14 But as for me, I trust in You, O Lord;
I say, “You are my God.”
15 My times are in Your hand;
Deliver me from the hand of my enemies,
And from those who persecute me.
16 Make Your face shine upon Your servant;
Save me for Your mercies’ sake.
17 Do not let me be ashamed, O Lord, for I have called upon You;
Let the wicked be ashamed;
Let them be silent in the grave.
18 Let the lying lips be put to silence,
Which speak insolent things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
19 Oh, how great is Your goodness,
Which You have laid up for those who fear You,
Which You have prepared for those who trust in You
In the presence of the sons of men!
20 You shall hide them in the secret place of Your presence
From the plots of man;
You shall keep them secretly in a pavilion
From the strife of tongues.
21 Blessed be the Lord,
For He has shown me His marvelous kindness in a strong city!
22 For I said in my haste,
“I am cut off from before Your eyes”;
Nevertheless You heard the voice of my supplications
When I cried out to You.
23 Oh, love the Lord, all you His saints!
For the Lord preserves the faithful,
And fully repays the proud person.
24 Be of good courage,
And He shall strengthen your heart,
All you who hope in the Lord.

David never doubted who God was but that didn't mean he was protected from suffering. While you won't read Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in the Bible, you will see it in their words over and over again.

Healing comes in three parts. The mind, the body and the spirit. If spiritual healing is left out, there is only numbing and not true healing. Add in the spirit and then they heal. How can they ever think that they can find that if jerks like this are telling them it is due to a lack of faith?

Traumatized Troops Lack Faith?
The American Conservative
By ROD DREHER
November 13, 2013

On a Veterans Day broadcast program, televangelist Kenneth Copeland and controversial historian David Barton told listeners that soldiers should never experience guilt or post-traumatic stress disorder after returning from military service.

Reading from Numbers 32: 20-22, Copeland said, “So this is a promise — if you do this thing, if you arm yourselves before the Lord for the war … you shall return, you’re coming back, and be guiltless before the Lord and before the nation.”

“Any of you suffering from PTSD right now, you listen to me,” Copeland said as Barton affirmed him.

”You get rid of that right now. You don’t take drugs to get rid of it. It doesn’t take psychology. That promise right there will get rid of it.”
read more here

So hear some truth. God doesn't screw up. Each and every person on this planet was sent here to do something with their lives. When it comes to the defenders, it is in their soul. It is that pull-tug-gnawing to join. Even the men drafted were not there on accident or luck of the draw. Each and everyone had it in their souls to do exactly what was asked of them and it was not for any type of God deciding who won or lost. It was about taking care of the others. After all, that was the reason they were willing to die. Wasn't it? For each other?

People doing what they were intended to do are the happiest if they know what the "it' is. Everything they need to do it is already inside of them including how to heal afterwards. That ability to care that much to be willing to die is also what allows them to feel so much pain.

God put that strength within them and it is the job of anyone claiming to be any type of religious/spiritual teacher to help them reconnect to what is already there so they can heal.

It is not their job to be jerks while claiming any connection to Christ.

This is a few years old. The only thing that has changed is there are more veterans with PTSD thinking they were abandoned by God or worse, making them suffer. The truth is, they suffer more because they cared more.

PTSD Not God's Judgment from Kathleen "Costos" DiCesare on Vimeo.