BACK40 E132 - Privacy, Honesty, Medicalizing Evil

In this episode we start with privacy: whether valuing privacy from the government is righteous when God sees everything, how we might live if our spiritual front door were always open, why "God knows my heart" should never be a defense for bad behavior, and how to hold firm moral lines without sliding into the legalism of the Pharisees. Next we talk about honesty: whether being honest means saying everything to everyone, why love is the filter for truth, why loving is not the same as being nice, and why gossip is a truth told without its context. We finish on spiritual malignancy and mental illness. We discuss how much of human evil has been medicalized, why the spiritual and the mental are both real, how our beliefs shape our minds, where medication helps and where it has been over prescribed, and why pastors should not hand every struggle off to clinicians.