What is Christian Science?
()
About this ebook
In this book the author makes an earnest endeavor to understand Christian Science and define its mission. He scrupulously verifies all his citations and references, and appeals to the judgment of those who are willing to hear both sides of the question.
Mangasar Magurditch Mangasarian was an American rationalist and secularist of Armenian descent. Mangasarian considered himself a Rationalist or a Secularist not an Atheist, since he considered atheism a non-verifiable belief system. He was pastor at a Presbyterian church in Philadelphia, which he resigned from, becoming an independent preacher and a lecturer on "independent religion" in New York.
Read more from M. M. Mangasarian
The Bible Unveiled (Religious & Historical Study) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Truth About Jesus & The Bible Unveiled Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Bible Unveiled Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhat is Christian Science? Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Truth About Jesus: Is He a Myth? Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Day's Work: Volume 1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Truth About Jesus : Is He a Myth?: Illustrated Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Truth about Jesus : Is He a Myth? Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhat was the Religion of Shakespeare? Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Truth About Jesus (Illustrated Edition) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Story of My Mind; Or, How I Became a Rationalist Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Truth About Jesus Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Bible Unveiled Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhat Is Christian Science? Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Bible Unveiled: Including "The Truth About Jesus" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhat was the Religion of Shakespeare? Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Truth About Jesus Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhat Was the Religion of Shakespeare? Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Truth About Jesus - Is He a Myth?: Illustrated Edition Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDiscover the Truth About Jesus and the Secrets of Bible Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to What is Christian Science?
Related ebooks
What Can We Really Know?: The Strengths and Limits of Human Understanding Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDirty Science: How Unscientific Methods Are Blocking Our Cultural Advancement Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHerding Cats (Atheism is Myth-Understood) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIf Ignorance Is Bliss, We Should All Be Ecstatic Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Science of Psychology EXPOSED Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDivine Principles Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAmidst Mass Atrocity and the Rubble of Theology: Searching for a Viable Theodicy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNo Sacred Cows: Investigating Myths, Cults, and the Supernatural Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Off the Hook Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Evidential Argument from Evil Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A New Science of the Afterlife: Space, Time, and the Consciousness Code Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsScience Refutes Religion: An essay concerning How and what it means to prove God does not exist Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNietzsche Was Probably Right Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Theory of God: Discovering the nature of God by examining the evidence of Life Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Shot of Faith (to the Head): Be a Confident Believer in an Age of Cranky Atheists Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5God Does Not Play Dice: The Fulfillment of Einstein's Quest for Law and Order in Nature Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Reasonable Christian Faith Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Passion for Truth: Reflections of a Scientist-Priest Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEugenics and Other Evils Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEugenics and Other Evils: An Argument against the Scientifically Organized State Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Edge of Reason: A Rational Skeptic in an Irrational World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Faith Under Fire Bible Study Participant's Guide: Exploring Christianity's Ten Toughest Questions Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPoems of Progress Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHuman Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Church of St. Bunco: A Drastic Treatment of a Copyrighted Religion-- Un-Christian Non-Science Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDeterminism or Free-Will? Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Human Mind Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Atheism For You
Flying With the Spaghetti Monster; the Pastafarian Handbook Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5United Aspects of Satan: The Black Book Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The God Delusion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Satanic Narratives - A Modern Satanic Bible Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Disproving Christianity: and Other Secular Writings Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Parody of Atheism Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHow "God" Works: A Logical Inquiry on Faith Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5We of Little Faith: Why I Stopped Pretending to Believe (and Maybe You Should Too) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCaught in the Pulpit: Leaving Belief Behind Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5There Is No God and He Is Always with You: A Search for God in Odd Places Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Deceptions and Myths of the Bible Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Atheist's Bible: The Most Dangerous Book That Never Existed Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSummary of The God Delusion: by Richard Dawkins | Includes Analysis Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Age of Atheists: How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Atheist Handbook to the Old Testament: The Atheist Handbook to the Old Testament, #1 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Manual for Creating Atheists Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Inside the Atheist Mind: Unmasking the Religion of Those Who Say There Is No God Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Atheist Handbook to the Old Testament: The Atheist Handbook to the Old Testament, #2 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsUnveiled: How the West Empowers Radical Muslims Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5American Crusade: How the Supreme Court Is Weaponizing Religious Freedom Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The God Argument: The Case Against Religion and for Humanism Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Oh, Your God!: The Evil Idea That Is Religion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Is Atheism Dead? Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Mere Morality Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Heathen's Guide to World Religions: A Secular History of the Many 'One True Faiths' Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5WORDS IN PAIN: Letters on Life and Death Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe End of a Road Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for What is Christian Science?
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
What is Christian Science? - M. M. Mangasarian
WHAT IS CHRISTIAN SCIENCE?
..................
M. M. Mangasarian
DODO COLLECTIONS
Thank you for reading. In the event that you appreciate this book, please consider sharing the good word(s) by leaving a review, or connect with the author.
This book is a work of nonfiction and is intended to be factually accurate.
All rights reserved. Aside from brief quotations for media coverage and reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced or distributed in any form without the author’s permission. Thank you for supporting authors and a diverse, creative culture by purchasing this book and complying with copyright laws.
Copyright © 2015 by M. M. Mangasarian
Interior design by Pronoun
Distribution by Pronoun
TABLE OF CONTENTS
What is Christian Science?
Why I Discuss Christian Science
Mrs. Eddy’s Mentality
Mortal Mind
Mrs. Eddy’s Prayer
Is Christian Science Scientific?
Is Christian Science Christian
?
Arrested Mentation
Do Christian Scientists Use their Minds?
Examples of Reasoning.
Do Christian Scientists Practise what they Preach?
Christian Science Cures
Christian Science Testimonials
Get-Well-Quick
Christian Science Fashionable
Christian Science and Witchcraft
Marriage and Death in Christian Science
Suffer it to Be So Now
The New Autocracy
The Menace of Christian Science
Christian Science and Morals
WHAT IS CHRISTIAN SCIENCE?
..................
YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND CHRISTIAN Science" is the usual reply of the followers of Mrs. Eddy to any one disputing their claims, or trying to point out the many inconsistencies in their creed. If it is impossible to understand Christian Science, how does it expect to propagate itself? To answer that one must accept the doctrine before one can understand it would be like asking a man to see before he opens his eyes, or to think after he has made up his mind. It is just as useless to try to understand Christian Science after it has been accepted as true as it would be for a judge to examine the evidence after a verdict has been pronounced. And if Christian Scientists can understand the beliefs which they reject, why may not other people have intelligence and honesty enough to understand Christian Science without believing in it?
But can a person who is not a mathematician understand or discuss profitably the intricate problems of mathematics? No; hence no one but a Christian Scientist may discuss its doctrines and interpret its metaphysics. Neither has that defence any value. We do not have to be expert mathematicians to know that twice two make four. It is possible to detect an error in an example of addition, multiplication, or subtraction presented by the greatest mathematician without possessing equal knowledge or ability. Mrs. Eddy may be more advanced in metaphysics than any of her critics, but twice two make four in Divine science
as well as in human science. Square your statements with the facts, and you disarm criticism. Ignore, suppress, or tamper with the facts, and you will have the universe against you.
WHY I DISCUSS CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
..................
IF ASKED WHY I DEVOTE time and labour to the discussion of such seemingly foolish propositions as those propounded by Mrs. Eddy, my defence is that I am very much interested in the people who accept Christian Science, and would like to be of service to them, even though they may hold me and my motives in derision. Then, again, I feel that if we stand idly by while the Christian Scientists are concentrating all their efforts, sparing neither time nor money to spread their doctrine, we may wake up some morning to find that all our institutions—newspapers, courts, schools, etc.—have passed under the control of Mrs. Eddy’s followers. That, in my opinion, would be a national menace.
If the teachings of Christian Science prevail, there will come into prominence the type of mentality which will dispense with all forms of inquiry, and accept for authority the say-so
of a book, a man, or a woman as all-sufficient and final.
The passive mind easily becomes the plaything or instrument of every kind of imposture—political, economic, or religious. Non-resistance will prove the death of free institutions. I am opposed to Christian Science because I am opposed to the least departure from sanity. I have no other motive in this propaganda against the new cult. Whatever undermines the morale of the nation or is hurtful to the free and rational development of humanity should be combated again and again until it ceases to be a menace.
MRS. EDDY’S MENTALITY
..................
THE FOUNDER OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE was, indeed, one of the busiest women of her day. She was preacher, writer, teacher, missionary, organizer, manager, etc. But even a superficial reading of her books will show that her activity resembled that of children at play rather than of men at work. Mrs. Eddy’s mind displayed all the qualities and defects of primitive man. Though incessantly active, she followed in all her mental efforts the line of least resistance. Children are never at rest of their own will; they run and romp almost continually; but it is the activity of play, not of work, which they enjoy. To work requires concentration and effort in a definite direction, and submission to rules and regulations; while in play one is at liberty to follow one’s own fancy, moving in any direction and at any speed one pleases. Again, the worker is expected to show results; the player, on the other hand, though equally busy, keeps going round and round, or back and forth, just for the pleasure of being in motion.
Mrs. Eddy had the child’s fondness