THE FORGOTTEN ARMY~ NO, THE FORGOTTEN PEOPLE. Sweep them under the rug “Out of sight out of mind” then we don’t need to think we have to help them. Stick needles (nails) in them, stigmata them, they are sinners

The trouble with mental illness it’s seen as akin to crimes of the Mafia like on an equal footing or worse. The Mafia often are treated better than the mentally ill. Where’s the stigma in being Mafia? Government tread delicately with Mafia, Bikie gangs etc but Government/Justice system ride rough all over the mentally ill.

Why do the mentally ill have stigma? Law. Law binds. Law does not treat the mentally ill well. The law rides rough over the mentally ill. The law does not protect the mentally ill it protects the public from the mentally ill. The mentally ill are treated like criminals. Law treats the mentally ill like criminals. People do not want to admit that they are mentally ill. Employers crucify the mentally ill employees they are chastised and sacked. Employers don’t employ the mentally ill. The mentally ill are near the bottom of the class system even lower often than the dark skinned.

Laws need to protect the mentally ill not put them away “Out of sight out of mind”, not treat them as outcasts to hide away. Laws are more about protecting the sane from the insane thus the insane have few rights they are put in institutions where they are contained. The insane must also be protected. Being insane is not criminal. Homosexuality was treated as criminal in the past. Mentally ill is still treated as criminal. Society still has some growing up to do.

Law stigmatisers the mentally ill. Law should bring freedom but it doesn’t it imprisons. Christ is freedom. Law binds.

The Law stigmated Jesus Christ. Roman soldiers were the civilian law of the times. The Jews were abiding by the religious Moses Laws. Law stigmatisers. Law should set people free but it doesn’t. Law never set Jesus free. Law killed Jesus.

The ONLY freedom from the Law is Jesus Christ. A conversion of the soul in Christ by Christ with Christ frees souls from the Law.

Law as it is treats mental illness as a crime. So for the mentally ill to get free of the Law and its binding is to get the soul/mind of Christ. Christ is free of all Law. Law comes down on sins but Christ is free of all sins. Law treats insanity as sin. Mental illness is treated as insanity. Being insane is sin to the world.

Summery:

Laws, religious and civilian, both, stigmatise people. The laws stigmatise the mentally ill. The laws bind and incarcerate the mentally ill. Mental illness is really seen not as an illness but as sins against God. People would rather think the mentally ill are axe murderers they hear voices telling them to kill people.

Such is the way of the blind leading the blind – we have the Pharisees and fundamentalists stigmatising the mentally ill, these religious people think they live above the law and that the law works for them and so when they stigmatise, the law does so too.

The law gets its power especially from the self righteous aka Pharisees. The law gets its power from the Old Testament. Christ is not the law. Christ was stigmatised (nailed to a cross) by the law, both religious and civilian. The church is full of the self righteous. The church backs up the law. Christ on the cross is the ultimate stigmata. Christ loves the mentally ill. The law is not about love. The Jews in Jesus Time on earth were the self righteous but now we have gone in a circle the Christian church has become self righteous. We have Christian Pharisees. The Christian Pharisees continue to stigmata Jesus (Emmanuel) those people receiving Christ and repenting of their sins. The Christian Pharisees are about God not Jesus.

Ultimately the civilian law works for the religious law not that the civilian law would admit to it. The Roman soldiers the civilian law submitted to the request of the religious law and killed Jesus Christ. Religion has power in numbers.

Yours Sincerely; Lester John Murray.

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