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caraher

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12. As noted by awake, Christian Science doesn't work that way
Tue Jul 1, 2014, 09:43 AM
Jul 2014

My mother-in-law was Christian Scientist and there's nothing in their religion that finds seeing a doctor morally objectionable. Thus, a business with Christian Scientist owners would have no standing to deny employees access to health care.

It really is something that operates on a personal/family level. My mother-in-law arguably died because she did not seek medical care for the heart failure that eventually claimed her life (in her late 80s, mind you), but it was always a case-by-case thing - she did consider doctors for some conditions, generally vision-related, though usually in the end she stuck with Christian Science healing. On a certain level, it is relentlessly pragmatic - the problem they have with medicine is not that it is wrong morally, it is that they consider it fundamentally in error. They think theirs is simply the better way.

I can see objecting to the tough cases, like not seeking medical treatment for children, but for adult Christian Scientists it's a matter for an individual making his or her own choices.

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