 Posted Friday, October 27, 2006 8:37 PM
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Anonymous
This isnt exactly what your were talking about. My dad has congestive heart failure and is 83 years old. He believes in Christian Science, but he keeps coming off of his medicine and ends up in the hospital and he is so bitter to me when I try to suggest he leave this group who evidently is trying to kill him.
Janice
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Posted Sunday, October 29, 2006 2:57 AM
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I hope your Dad gets better soon 
But it sounds as if the Christian Scientists haven't been doing a very good job of killing him if he's lived to 83!
Erol
Anonymous (10/27/2006)
Anonymous
This isnt exactly what your were talking about. My dad has congestive heart failure and is 83 years old. He believes in Christian Science, but he keeps coming off of his medicine and ends up in the hospital and he is so bitter to me when I try to suggest he leave this group who evidently is trying to kill him.
Janice
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Posted Friday, November 17, 2006 5:25 PM
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| My father passed away at age 81. I had left Christian Science, because I knew that I was not as good of a Christian as he was. He possessed all the fruits of the Spirit and ye shall know them by their fruits. My sister wondered if he would have lived a little longer if he had given up his faith and would give power to something other than God. I too am tempted to give up my Christian ethics at times. However I know that my father has eternal Life and he demonstrated convinction of his belief and I am positive that he is now able to look God in the face and God has said, "Well done, my good and faithful servant."
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Posted Saturday, March 15, 2008 3:58 PM
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| Hi: I think there are good and bad in cs, and in christians. If I sit in a garage, I am not a car. If I sit in a church I am not necessarily a Christian. These are terms that organized religion attaches. but its more what kind of life are you leading rather, than being over obsessed with the word Jesus or Christian attached. I think unfortunately enough God will make every one have to account, even the christians, that sometimes trying to witness, in reality are judging, someone else. and this is the most evil that can be done. Perhaps thats why its not good to discuss religion. Its between you and the great Creator. period.
Music Man
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Posted Saturday, March 15, 2008 4:00 PM
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| Susan: hearign the gospel is fine. but if you are following the first 2 commandments, love God and love your neighbor, this is all God really requires. the rest, is common sense to right living.
Music Man
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Posted Monday, April 28, 2008 7:54 PM
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Isn't that interesting. All that you've got to do is try to tell your story and before you even get done you are getting shouted-down by a couple of charter members of the Christian Science Anti-Defamation League just like the liberals get shouted-down on Fox News.
It happened to me in drug treatment back in the 1990s. In an AA-sponsored facility, where anonymity is the rule, I wasn't even allowed to share my story with a group of 12 "campers" before one of them interrupted me to loudly protest my hatred of his religion. I never knew this guy before drug treatment, but he and his parents knew my parents, and what I had said swiftly made its way to my folks. So much for anonymity. You know, my name is XXXXX and I'm an addict. I never gave my last name, but it didn't seem to matter to him. I've wondered ever since if he was some kind of a plant just to try to silence me or refute my story.
I'm afraid there is quite a bit more to the story then one memory. Just last week the same thing happened right here on this site.
Jimmy
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Posted Thursday, June 05, 2008 9:39 AM
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| I've seen my fair share of hostility coming from regular Christians. It seems to follow cults, no matter how old or large they may be.
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Posted Thursday, June 12, 2008 8:13 AM
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Anonymous (6/5/2008)
I've seen my fair share of hostility coming from regular Christians. It seems to follow cults, no matter how old or large they may be.
Yipe, that was me, forgot to sign it. Also, that second sentence came across much more aggressive than I intended.
G
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Posted Sunday, October 05, 2008 9:32 AM
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...Hmmm, Well, I don't know if this will go through your almighty censors, seemingly the bias on this site is enormous. I have never met a people more into themselves than in this thread. I am not a Christian Scientist, however I have a friendly neighbor who is, it's things like this that make me ashamed of the human race as a whole. You say you met Jesus on a mountaintop, if you truly had, shouldn't you have moved that mountain? It was under my impression that CS wasn't a religion at first, merely a way of life, but people being judgmental about it, like yourselves, pushed it into a sect. I feel more inclined to protect my friend in fear of people like yourselves. I do not trust you, this was going to be a sociology project about CS, but maybe I should do it on how full of yourselves you guys seem to be "evil's of Christian Science"? Every site I've studied has been quite informative, unbiased, and shed light on how evil isn't real.
I have never met a people so unfriendly, so pompous, and so fearful in my life.
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Posted Sunday, October 05, 2008 11:59 AM
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this was going to be a sociology project about CS, but maybe I should do it on how full of yourselves you guys seem to be "evil's of Christian Science"? If you've never been CS and are getting your impression of it from one Christian Scientist you know who is a nice person (and I'll say that most CSists ARE nice people), then I'll respectfully suggest that you don't have a perspective from which to judge our comments. We've lived it, many of us loved it and studied it extensively, most of us have suffered under it, and many of us have watched loved ones suffer and die unnecessarily under it. And that doesn't even touch the religious issues...
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