People with M Initials

That one confused me at first. I was thinking of the character's name, and wondering how I could get an M out of Stanley Kowalski. Then I thought maybe it was the name of the playwright, but no M in Tennessee Williams, either. Finally it came to me it was referring to the actor from the film. Sometimes I can be so dense.

From the wikipedia page: "In particular, [Christian Science] adherents subscribe to a radical form of philosophical idealism, believing that reality is purely spiritual and the material world an illusion."

The core way in which I understand that tenet to apply is the belief that prayer and faith are more effective than medicine and that medicine makes prayer less effective. It's basically a religious placebo effect, wherein if you believe it works, it works (sometimes).

While not written to be a science textbook, the Bible reflects scientifically accurate information that was not available to humans at the time it was written.

BTW, Creation is in the Bible. Creationism is not. Nowhere in the Bible does it say that the Earth is only 6,000 years old. "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." No time frame given there. The first creative day could've begun eleventy-jillion years after the creation of the earth. And each creative "day" could've lasted for thousands of thousands of years. The Bible does not say nor imply that each one was a mere 24 hours.

"Christian Science" has nothing to do with science. It is also not considered mainstream Christianity and has nothing to do with Creationism or other Evangelical pseudoscience that attempt to fool people into thinking that the Bible is scientifically accurate (it's not, but that's a different story). When I was still a believing Christian myself I was told that Christian Science was a dangerous cult.

Christian Science is it's own religious tradition, somewhat inspired by mainstream Christianity, with its own latter-day self-styled prophet making it very similar to Mormonism, the Jehovah's Witnesses, the Moonies, Islam, and the Branch Davidians. It also bears similarities to many new-age religious movements in its ideas about metaphysics.

They really ought to come up with a better name for it. Eddyism, maybe. Because "Christian Science" is, as you can see, confusing to a lot of people.

Cheers for the info guys. Still not a religion, or religious belief system I have encountered.

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