Ironically, while the secular world has grown increasingly disaffected with the professional psychotherapy industry, the evangelical world had been frantically trying to marry secular psychology and biblical truth. While the world becomes more and more suspicious of psychology, Christians seem to be growing more and more committed to it. Perhaps it is fair to say that many in the church are addicted to psychotherapy.

The rush to embrace psychology within the church is frankly mystifying. Psychology and Christianity have been enemies from the beginning. Freud’s presuppositions were atheistic and cynical. He called religion a “universal, obsessional neurosis.” To him, religion was an illusion that derived its strength from irrational, wishful thinking rooted in human instinct. Those who followed Freud at first were uniformly hostile to biblical belief. The foundational doctrines of the movement were therefore based on blatant anti-Christian presuppositions. To Freud and his followers the human being was nothing but an animal motivated by the sex drive and other ego needs.