 Posted Monday, May 26, 2008 7:26 AM
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| Do Go Be Man; Interesting info. you are giving me. Although I had thought that the churches were so old they must have been paid for long ago, I didn't know that the church was so rich as to have all the funds before they built them. I just thought they were in some kind of desperate need to get out from under them, the maintainable and upkeep or just raise some cash for some reason...hey, how can 10 or 20 active local members heat and light and maintain the grounds and parking area and insure their huge local church that seats a couple hundred people. My sis and bro each in a separate town were readers in their church, just imagine standing up there every Sunday reading (in those boring monotone cs voices) to a huge church with only 10 people sitting there half dead. I'm sorry to be so off the subject, but all of these thoughts are rolling around me and I have never had anyone who could relate to my cs experiences. Yes, I did have many fine memories of Sunday School, but still, I was so scared and shy and felt so inferior, probably because I knew I was always sinning at home and at school and could never measure up to the cs stuff about our "perfection". The idea of all the churches being eventually sold is a like finally removing or killing the last bit of cancer out of the body. Another thing about the money, I heard on some website that the monitor was so broke that the various churches had to pump huge funds into it a few years back. How does one get to know all this stuff without spending half her day searching and researching all over the web for info that may or may not be true. People like me and my kids don't have that kind of time and don't even know where to begin. And we've got a couple of cs nieces and nephews who still have one foot in and could use some of these details to help them open their eyes a little further regarding the early history as well as the recent history so that a light bulb can go on in their head and they can see that everything they ever thought (about the church being such a strong solid entity, The mother church and the monitor, sentinel, journal were such powerful images of security for me as a child and a teen ager (when one is the only cs student in the hole school, she needs some sign that the religion she is connected with is something big and solid somewhere in the world, (like all my Catholic friends had the Vatican, and my Jewish friends had Bethlehem.....all I had was the Christian Science Monitor to boast of, and that didn't even mean beans to my classmates so I had to build it up even more in my own mind......in my mind it was a holy shrine of sorts!! And even though I so deeply hate what the practice (mal-practice ) of cs has done to thousands of people and broken up so many families it still is a shock to my system that my shrines were built on such weak foundations and are now falling so completely apart. Maybe my reaction has something to do with the fact that I have been living for 20 years in 3rd world countries and coming back to the US has been such a shock, everything has overwhelmed me; new stuff everywhere, old stuff being turned into something new. Isn't anything stable any more other than the Kingdom of God? The old world order is indeed crumbling. But the new stuff isn't any better. Well, thanks again for letting me post here. I apologize for not staying on topic, but I don't know how to shut-up once I start to write..... it all comes flowing out.
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