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...zeal to protect the safety of our fellow citizens, the staff simply does not go far enough. The government can certainly do more to "save lives...
Recall Jesus' encounter with the wealthy young fellow who claimed exemplary zeal in the zipper department. He had followed the Ten Commandments to the letter, so was he entitled to eternal life? No, was the unambiguous answer; the next step was to "go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor." Jesus then offered his famous observation on camels and needles and how futile it is for rich folks to try to wriggle their way into heaven...
What causes these critics to lose their professional cool at the mere mention of Breggin is his relentless crusade against the conventional wisdom of psychiatry -- and his increasingly high profile. What causes Breggin to rail against his profession is its eagerness to embrace technology, from the early zeal for lobotomies and electroshock to the modern reliance on such psychoactive drugs as Thorazine and lithium. In looking for the quick fix, Breggin argues, too many psychiatrists have forgotten the importance of love, hope and empathy in maintaining sanity. The power to heal the mind lies in people, he says, not pills...
...converted to the Roman Catholic Church in my adolescence. But I never had a convert's zeal. I never acquired that instinctive deep structure, that internal universe, that is installed in the cradle Catholic from the start -- the spiritual DNA. Half in the church, half out, a kid who read too much Graham Greene and Thomas Merton, I embraced, it may be, the surface things: the brocaded rituals, the Latin Mass of those days, the rich atmospheres...
Johnson said he was not surprised that PBH had once again become the object of reformers' zeal...