Grace Community Church pastor John MacArthur generated headlines and social media posts when he recently stated in a public forum that “the major noble lie is there is such a thing as mental illness. . . There’s no such thing as PTSD. There’s no such thing as OCD. There’s no such thing as ADHD. Those are noble lies to basically give the excuse to, at the end of the day, to medicate people.” MacArthur has doubled down on this view in a subsequent sermon and in a lengthy blog post in in which he refers to my specialty of medical practice, psychiatry, as a “formidable adversary to Scripture.”
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