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With all proper respect, Christian Science is an oxymoron.
Honestly. This is not merely my knee jerk, iconoclastic response, but something I have been kicking around on and off for years.
Mary Baker Eddy was a certified crackpot on the order of L. Ron Hubbard. She has a chapter to herself in <i>Great American Eccentrics</i> (ISBN: 088365864X) While I am not saying that a total lunatic cannot have a good idea, that's where the smart money is - particulerly when the idea and the lunacy are identical.
For point 2, I found myself writing a book and realized that I was digressing unacceptably. Allow me to limit it to this: Science is, if not a Relgion, of a kind with Religion. Christian Science is neither in the same way that Voudoun is neither Christianity nor Yoruba animism.
<b>KoKenZn</b>: I really like that quote, but if find the fatalism inherent in it distasteful to the extent that I wouldn't care to incorporate it into my worldview.
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