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Why Is CS Faulted for Failures But Not Medicine Despite Its Failures?

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I have never understood why Christian Science can be faulted for times when people die, while traditional medicine is blameless.

Do all medical patients get cured and recover always? Hardly. Some die, even during/after treatment for “minor” ailments.

Secondly, at any given time, medical “science” disagrees with itself from just a few years prior. Thus, medical science can hardly be seen as correct or accurate.

This message was received on the Collision website anonymously and has been posted here by Bob Ellis

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As someone who has watched a devout Christian Scientist suffer and die a terrible and cruel death from something that was medically treatable, I have to say that one reason is that medical science, although not perfect, does not promise a 100 percent result in all cases. Doctors are ethically required to inform a patient of dangers and consequences of medical treatments. Has a Christian Science practitioner ever informed a patient of all the Christian Science failures before they accept their fee for prayer? Furthermore, medical science does not say that you cannot use prayer in addition to their services, while Christian Science treatment and medical treatment are not allowed to be mixed and are mutually exclusive. At least when medicine fails, the case is reviewed and addressed. In the Christian Science church, when their method fails, the failure is blamed on the victim's thought. The Christian Science "failures" are quickly hushed and no one speaks of them.
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You are so right. Everything is hush, hush and always the victim's thought comes into play. When my little daughter was taken to a practitioner to meet and talk with her concerning a problem, the child later told us that her (the child's) thought wasn't right; it was her fault. There is something very wrong with this picture.
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