substitute for enjoyment of life in the present are likely to foster mental ill health. Another aspect of the last named problem is that of utilizing religion as a means escape from reality or as a dependency mechanism which encourages the individual to ‘cast his burdens on the Lord’ and cease to do anything about them himself.“11 Even a superficial examination of the above statement reveals a most serious incongruence between Biblical Christianity and secular psychology. Thus, the Christian who
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