Robertson Blames Rise In Use Of Anti-Depressants On People Not Believing In God

Yeah, nothing depressing about the church.

<blank stare>

Is there some sort of correlation between atheism and depression? I'm an atheist and since I think this world is all we have, I intend to live my life to the absolute fullest; my future is full of bright, happy days. =)

Pat's pharmaceutical knowledge makes Tom Cruise seem intelligent.

... but you can still divorce your Alzheimer's-ridden wife because "she's basically dead anyway" because God's in your heart?

Thanks for the clarification!

You silly old fool you no nothing of the tortured depressed. Don't you think that many of them cry out to god everyday.

What I found most amazing about the study was the revelation that only atheists suffer from depression.

What? You mean that wasn't revealed? But, wait a minute....Pat My-Eyes-No-Longer-Open Robertson just implied that people suffer from depression because they don't believe in god.

I wonder, how does Pat explain depression in people who also have strong faith?

This is the same thinking that you can "pray away the (fill in the blank)". Look, when you get an infection, you take antibiotics. When you have diabetes, you take insulin. When you have surgery, you are given anesthesia. When you have a headache, you take Motrin or Tylenol. You cannot "pray away the pain" when someone is cutting into your chest for open-heart surgery.

And when depression is a diagnosis (as opposed to a temporary conditional sadness) you are prescribed anti-depressants.

God gave us brains and expects us to use them. So when you make idiotic comments like this, "Reverend", you are not fulfilling your commitment to honor God.

Nothing fixes your depression like having someone tell you that you were born wrong to begin with and the only way to get better is to be a sheep in service to a nonexistent god/s.

Or maybe the problem is that people aren't getting access to proper mental health professionals and Dr. find it cheap and easier to just put pills in their patients hands.

No Pat must be right it's a lack of fairy tails and magic making people depressed. I mean really everyone likes a good magic show.

The necessity of my introducing seratonin re-uptake inhibitors is in direct correlation to my straying away from organized Catholicism. Wow Pat, I was told that it was a chemical issue!

Depression is a organic disorder of the brain. It has nothing to do with not believing in God, etc. It can be exacerbated by external things, but it is a disease process.

And Pat's got that "I just did a warm poopie in my didie" smile again.

I think Pat will need some anti-depressants (in the form of millions of dollars from his authoritarian flock) as he realizes that non-belief in his god is only rising as people like him and his antiquated beliefs become more and more irrelevant.

Mr. Senility strikes again.

You know what would cause me to need anti-depressants? If I believed in God (or at least Pat Robertsons version of God).

If I believed in an all powerful, all loving God, and then had to look around at what is going on in the world, yeah, I'd be pretty depressed too.

Pat Robertson is a big proponent of godless Republican economics. He has also "added" to the Bible, for which he will be punished, according to the last page of the book of Revelation.

I wasn't aware that pain killers were prescribed for depression. Apparently Pat Robertson isn't either.

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If I, Like Pat, had absolutely no understanding of depression or other medical issues, I probably wouldn't be going quite so public about it.

Tell that to religious people (including me) with depression, diagnosed or otherwise. Of course, I suspect that he'd find plenty of other things about such people to wrinkle his nose over besides their depression.

Pat seems really knowledgeable on this subject.

Yeah, anti-depressants get you stoned. Moron.

Things don't look dark and gloomy due to a lack of faith; they appear to be dark and gloomy, because things are dark and gloomy.

glad to see pat also believes religion is a drug

In a related story, Pat Robertson is still all phuc$ed up on Jesus.

I'm amazed Satan hasn't come to claim this guy yet.

Dear Pat,

The fact that people like you exist, and get to spew nonsense, is quite depressing.


- An American Atheist

It is time for old Pat to retire. Watched him interview Joel Rosenberg on his fiction book The Tehran Initiative the other day and try to link it to Obama. Believing that this work of fiction is based in reality is directly comparable to those who believe there is truth in Dan Brown's DaVinci Code. Seriously, Pat, your line between fiction and reality are getting blurred.

I am a firm believer in the Gospel of Grace. I also take anti-depressants. Originally they were prescribed when i was going through a hard time with my teenage son. That has passed as do all hard times but I stayed on my medication. See, I found another advantage to taking my citalopram...FOCUS. I am one of those people who can be doing something and my mind is on something completely different. I can be reading a book and get to the bottom of the page and realize that I have not retained a single thing because my mind was elsewhere. I have found that this is not such an issue on my medication so decided that for a mere $4/month it was beneficial to my job and life. They do not get me "stoned" as Mr. Robertson said this morning. He needs to do some real research.

Another thing...With all the "doomsday" and "the Muslims are coming to get us" talk that goes on at the 700 Club is it any wonder people are depressed? Maybe Robertson and his clan are directly responsible for some of the depression running "rampant" in the USA. What happened to the protection of the believers of Christ? Haven't heard him speak of this recently.

Really, this doddering old fool needs to quit living in his glory days of when "he was running for president" (of which he endlessly loves to remind his listeners) and decide whether he is a preacher or a politician. As a believer, I find it not possible to be both. The Lord is so much higher than man's politics and if a preacher is teaching about the gifts bestowed upon us through the sacrifice he would only be lowering his position to get caught up in the hateful game of society's politics.

What a Maroon!

These comments are simply ignorant.Millions of Americans are prescribed anti-depressants by their physicians to treat a variety of legitimate illnesses(a large number of which are biologically based). These drugs DON'T get people stoned. Typically they work to correct chemical imbalances in the brain that are physical in nature.This statement is equivalent to saying that hypertension is caused by a lack of faith in God & taking medication to treat it is morally wrong.

Everyone quit sending old Pat money and watch how fast he gets depressed.

"I'm not sure what it entails but it's not a pleasant thing."

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