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What is Love?
Originally published at Kindism.org, reprinted here with permission. While Buddhists focus on the Rights of the Noble Eightfold Path, Christian Scientists focus on things like the 'right hand soap' or…
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The Placebo Effect
By Jeremy, an Ex-Christian Scientist group editor/writer.
If you spend any amount of time in or around Christian Science and read the published output of the Christian Science Church (through its periodicals and its spokespeople), you’re bound to come across discussion of the placebo effect (otherwise known as placebo response). It is frequently used as a gateway to insert Christian Science into the discussion of more credible alternative health care modalities (some of which actually submit themselves to scientific study), or even the discussion of scientifically-based medical treatment itself.
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New Resource Index!
We are pleased to announce a new resource: an index of resources, posts and popular topics, compiled by the ExCS Editorial team! All links are active and current as of the…
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I’ve always wondered
The following is a collection of musings from members of the Ex-Christian Science collective about Christian Science. One thing I've always wondered is how Christian Science looks to a new, adult convert. I…
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Medical Neglect in the Name of God – Part 1
Rita Swan, the founder of C.H.I.L.D. Inc. is featured on this podcast from the Thinking Atheist. Here, she eloquently makes the case against the legal permissiveness of religious faith-healing in the case of…
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I’m still the odd man out
By Renee, an Ex-Christian Scientist Group contributor. I am a medical assistant at a health and wellness practice. Recently at work we started this 30-day affirmation challenge. I read through…
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I was the worst daughter they ever saw
By Sharon, an Ex-Christian Scientist Group contributor. I get upset and frustrated when I think of what my mother put herself and the rest of us through at the end…
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Always think of God as your Father
By Ex-Christian Science blogger, Hester Sebree. For more of her writing, check out Incredibly True Stories of Christian Science Healing. Christian Science isn't always easy to interpret. I took one of…
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The Catholic Thing
The following is a collection of contributions from members of the Ex-Christian Science Group dealing with paranoia about Catholicism. My family had creepy stuff: manuals carefully transcribed on onion-skin, with articles by Bicknell…
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It was our fault that my father died because we let him out of our ‘experience.’
By Sharon, an Ex-Christian Scientist Group contributor. Christian Scientists have a lack of humanity, sympathy, empathy—whatever you want to call it—in the face of death. It’s downright weird. My mother's…