Divine Comedy and mental illness

Just read the PROJO Lifebeat article on  Dave Kane - " who has

    earned plenty of laughs... portraying a Roman Catholic priest. "

    ( October 21 ). A caption says of his FATHER MISGIVINGS : " This

    whole show says one thing: God loves you, no matter who you are ".

                   I enjoy comedy and spoof as much as anybody but in

    real life the DIVINE COMEDY is not enjoyed by many millions of lost

    souls whose daily life is tormenting misery, especially if they are

    deeply religious and believe in a PERSONAL GOD.

                 Here is a taboo subject: How many psychiatrists can deal

    with mental patients who are deep down  ANGRY at an anthropomorphic

    God -who they were taught is all-good  and all-powerful ?

                No rational human being can get angry at a THING. But

    God is another matter. I suspect that there are cognitive factors

    in many forms of mental illness. I  witness a mentally ill man

    cursing the Creator and can only conclude that he would be saner

    if he could only change his idea of a personal God.

                But that OLD TIME RELIGION  - its pernicious MESSAGE

    of a lOVING GOD - is ubiquitous in our mass media culture.

               We must settle for HUMAN LOVE - and as Erich Fromm

    pointed out in his " Art of Love " , THAT is rare in a competitive

    capitalist society that worships SUCCESS more than the plastic Jesus

    of TV evangelism.

                Anything humorous about the Holocaust , Father Misgivings ?

           If there is a God, better to give HIM the silent treatment and

    as Voltaire recommends : " cultivate our garden ".

                Sometimes PROZAC is not enough !