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Kastlefeer
If the mind treatment is not suggested to replace medical treatment, then why bother? If it's suggested to have some effect wouldn't the church goer find their belief in it displacing their desire to get medical treatment?
You obviously don't understand the dynamics of prayer. Spiritual Mind Treatment is a form of prayer. The prayer would include the medical practitioners' being guided, inspired, and informed by the Wisdom of God. :wink:
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Kastlefeer
But you're right there's qualifiers given. So why be a member of the Church of Religious Science?
Why be a member of any group? It certainly seems to bother you that people belong to Religious Science churches.
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Kastlefeer
Perhaps it's not a cult, perhaps it's not even very easily described as quantitatively destructive? It's just a silly ineffectual belief system with social perks, and a lot of grifters hanging around in the local chapters in my particular spot.
The first part of the above statement is simply an unsupportable opinion, and the second part is an insult to people who frequent the Religious Science church.
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Kastlefeer
Just describe as an anti-thiest from here on out.
An adherent of Religious Science is not an ant-theist; an adherent of Religios Science is a theist.