Immorality-Asteroid Link

In the 1890s Freud researched the psychiatric condition “hysteria”. Symptoms may include blindness, deafness, loss of voice, vomiting, paralysis, epilepsy, etc.

The symptoms had no organic basis and were resistant to treatment.

Most of the sufferers told of sexual abuse or seduction in childhood by fathers. Freud noted this in 1896 but did not publicly promote this finding again. It's probable that Freud's own father abused Freud’s brother and sisters and Freud was unwilling to face this. Therefore he dismissed reports of seducing fathers as "defensive fictions". He replaced the seduction theory with the "oedipus complex" whereby children have incestuous desire for the parent of opposite sex and fantasies of being seduced.

Florence Rush (1980) writes: "the world listened to Freud and paid little heed to the sexual abuse of the young." (The Best Kept Secret, p. 96) She shows that up to 25% of females and 9% of males are sexually abused in childhood with devastating medical and psychological consequences upon millions of victims.

Every evil that imposes heavy costs on society — such as immorality, sexual abuse, war, lies, crime, theft, terrorism, etc — reminds me of Bible prophecies that state: "because of these things the wrath of God is coming…" (Ephesians 5:1-6) That "wrath", the Bible says, includes our whole planet on fire with every human construction destroyed. (2 Peter 3)

In Asteroids and their Impact (#62) I showed that by 1990 scientists were starting to realize that future world-wide destruction by asteroid impact is inevitable and could set the world on fire. There is also risk of smaller impacts — ones that humans could stop if they had warning and also prepared the technology.

Hence I viewed with alarm the closure, in 1996 by the Howard Government, of Australia's observatory for tracking Earth-threatening asteroids.

The closure saved Australia $1million per year — 5 cents per person. Yet payments to American sex-abuse victims by the Catholic Church has totalled $1000 million. War, crime, sexual immorality, etc, cost much more.

Humans put great effort into doing wrong and paying greatly for it, but they don't divert the paltry amounts needed to save Earth from asteroids. This implies direct links between human evil and negligence and possible sudden worldwide destruction.

The Bible made that link — now science can too.

Anonymous—SA