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Logical Incoherence in the Theology of Christian Science
A former Christian Scientist, now a born-again Christian, argues that Mary Baker Eddy’s teaching that God is a principle is logically incoherent.
We went to the park
An anonymous former Christian Scientist recalls Sundays at church and Sunday School from birth to age 20, Principia, and Thanksgiving testimonies, and why their children skip it.
She was considered barely manageable because she occasionally asked questions
An anonymous contributor recalls Sunday School as a child, and the day an older churchgoer had a heart attack and the children were hurried away from the paramedics.
I just believed what they told me. Because I was a kid!
A former Christian Scientist recalls their mother’s death from an untreated lung illness and a practitioner who, when they were thirteen, blamed them for the family’s poverty.
I felt I had no right to mourn because my father had just ‘passed away’
An anonymous former Christian Scientist describes how a creative writing workshop revealed unresolved grief over a father who died of untreated colon cancer.
Ruth's Story: Turn to Medical Hospice
A writer recounts the final weeks of their devoted Christian Scientist mother: her decline in a Christian Science nursing facility and her move to medical hospice care.
There isn't ANYTHING that Christian Science doesn't promise
An anonymous contributor argues that Christian Science promises perfection, no suffering, and even no death, and breeds arrogance and a habit of dodging rational debate.
"The people here are so nice."
A contributor calls 911 when their Christian Science mother falls into a diabetic coma. The call extends her life six years and is one step in the writer’s path out of the church.
If people were doing something different I internally judged them
An anonymous third-generation Christian Scientist describes judgmental thinking it taught, regret over raising children in it, and feeling free only after the writer’s mother died.
A Reflection of Perfection
A fourth-generation Christian Scientist describes lasting childhood guilt, how an inhaler for adult-onset asthma led to leaving, and how a good therapist helped.