It is not easy to fathom why some Christian churches have enthusiastically embraced the idea of recovered memory therapy.
The Anglican church has been involved both in Australia and the UK; and a number of conservative Protestant churches have taken to it in the USA. Recently too, there have been Christian therapists practicing a quasi-spiritual version of RMT known as Theophostic counselling.
The teachings of Jesus do not seem to sit well with the demonising of parents; nor with the blaming of others for one's misery.
Quite the opposite.
For example, one of the most important passages in the Bible describes how the enemies of Jesus attempted to 'trap him in his words':-
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So then the Pharisees, hearing that he'd shut the Sadducees up, all got together in the same place. And one of them versed in law asked him as a test, "Teacher, which commandment in the law is important?"
He said to them, "You are to love your lord God with all your heart and all your spirit and all your mind. That is the important and first commandment. The second one is similar: You are to love those close to you as you love yourself. All the law and all the prophets hang from these two commands."
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Note that in this recent translation, the phrase 'love those close to you' is used – instead of the more traditional 'love your neighbour', or 'love thy neighbour'.
In any version of the Bible however, Jesus is unambiguous regarding these two commandments.
It is hard to imagine an interpretation of his words that would justify RMT: either in principle or in practice.
And when he said 'love those close to you' or 'love your neighbour' – is it even remotely possible that he would have intended that our parents should be excluded?
Text quoted from The Unvarnished New Testament
See also The Online Parallel Bible Matthew 22:34
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