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Five Questions: I's Answers
A former Christian Scientist from a multi-generation family answers the Five Questions: certain by age 15 of not being one, and how chemistry class clarified the doubts.
God was expected to provide
A former Christian Scientist raised in the UK describes a mother who hoped the writer would become a practitioner, and the confusion that followed.
No. I want God to do it.
A former Christian Scientist describes a childhood hand injury remembered as a healing, doubts that memory now, and argues that false memories sustain belief in Christian Science.
We understand this but others do not, aren't we clever...
A former Christian Scientist looks at Science and Health again, finds it unreadable and repetitive, and notes it offers little advice for when a healing does not come.
Five Questions: S's Answers
A former Christian Scientist, raised in the church from infancy, answers the Five Questions about staying, leaving, and a broken leg that made them afraid to rely on prayer.
Five Questions: P's Answers
P, born into Christian Science, answers five questions about leaving at sixteen after asking a Sunday School teacher how a perfect person can be deceived by illusions.
Five Questions: N's Answers
N, raised in Christian Science, answers five questions about staying out of fear, leaving a religion that made people feel guilty for seeking help, and why people join.
Five Questions: M's Answers
An anonymous former Christian Scientist answers five common questions: how they got in, why they stayed, why they left at 45, why people join, and whether they believed.
Five Questions: L's Answers
A fourth-generation former Christian Scientist answers five common questions: how she got in, why she stayed, what made her leave, why people join, and whether she believed.
Five Questions: H's Answers
H, raised in Christian Science by parents who converted as adults, answers five questions about why they stayed, why they left, and whether they really believed.