Trauma. Once a word that solely referred to a physical wound, it is now far more popularly discussed with regards to psychological wounds. One can read dozens of books about trauma and find countless memes floating around discussing it, but there seems to be a lot of suspect advice out there. Even worse, it seems that trauma discourse is being used to reconceive our entire psychological, religious, social, and political milieus in a therapeutic manner—a manner which, of course, can then only be cared for by professionals. This is just the latest iteration in a process going back over a century which has used psychology to make sense of the modern world and (at best) aid religion in the care for the soul or (at worst) supplant religion’s care for individual souls entirely. There is a lot of discussion around trauma from churches and other Christians that, in conjunction with narratives around deconstructing one’s faith, threatens to accelerate the process of apostasy for many.
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