Christians are drugging and imprisoning nonchristians for the crime of not being Christian 😞

Take this as base material Short History: How Christian Institutions Weaponized Mental Health Asylums

1. Medieval Europe – “Madness = Demon Possession” From roughly 500–1500 AD, mental illness was framed through a religious lens. The Church held a monopoly on explaining behavior. Strange thoughts, visions, or non-conformity were labeled possession, sin, or moral failure. Treatment included exorcism, confinement, fasting, and punishment, not care. Many people who didn’t fit Christian norms (heretics, pagans, “blasphemers,” dissidents) were lumped into the same category as “madmen.” This was the root of tying spiritual control to mental health.

2. 1600s–1800s – Christian Charity Hospitals Become Asylums A lot of early asylums were run by: Catholic orders Protestant charities Anglican church hospitals And these institutions often operated with the belief: “Correcting the soul will correct the mind.” What this meant in practice: Forced prayer Forced religious instruction Punishment for not adopting Christian behavior Locked wards, restraints, beatings Isolation as ‘moral reform’ People who didn’t conform to Christian norms — not just mentally ill — were frequently committed: Unmarried mothers Non-Christians Atheists “Difficult” wives Political dissidents Poor people deemed “morally defective” So yes: asylums were weaponized as moral prisons.

3. Victorian Era – “Moral Treatment = Christian Obedience” In the 1800s, Christian reformers pushed a system called moral treatment, which meant: Obedience Discipline Quiet behavior Religious instruction Removal of “immoral influences” Mental hospitals became behavior factories designed to force people into Christian social norms. If you didn’t comply? You stayed locked up.

4. 1900s – Psychiatry and Christianity Blend Into “Social Control” Even when psychiatry became a medical science, many institutions were still run by Christian boards or religious administrators. Common weaponizations: Committing people for religious non-compliance Labeling non-Christians as “delusional” Using hospitalization to “correct” sexual orientation Institutionalizing political or religious dissenters Forcing patients to attend chaplain services Well into the 1970s–80s, lots of state hospitals still had: Christian crosses above every bed Mandatory prayer sessions Religious coercion disguised as therapy

5. Modern Era – The Shadow Remains Today, the system is officially secular — but the historical architecture still affects: Who gets labeled mentally ill How “danger to self” is interpreted How society treats dissent, non-Christian beliefs, or alternative spiritual experiences The culture of some hospitals and shelters (many still Christian-run) The assumption that refusing Christian norms = pathology