The Christian Science is Church of Christ, Scientist has faith based healing centers located around the country staffed by “specially” trained non-medical nurses who care for the sick without the aid of modern medicine or doctors, which is to say they watch the suffering ala Mother Teresa but without the PR machine. It’s faith healing, or as I like to call it, faith based torture, and they want the US taxpayer to fund it.
For 60 years, Wide Horizon, which sits high on a Wheat Ridge hillside, has offered spiritual care and healing. The center serves seven states: Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, Kansas, Wyoming and Nebraska.
The center practices Christian Science, a theology and healing system founded by Mary Baker Eddy in Boston in 1879.
The church is grounded in the Bible and in Eddy's primary textbook on Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures."
"What Christ Jesus practiced and taught 2,000 years ago is still applicable. Those spiritual laws are eternal laws," said Wide Horizon executive director D. Brian Boettiger. "Mrs. Eddy was a pioneer leader who rediscovered those laws."
Read more: Christian Scientists push for health insurance that covers spiritual care
The Church of Christ, Scientist is serious. They want us to pay for their torture centers, untrained nurses, and prayer.
"If the government is going to take the extraordinary step of requiring Americans to buy health insurance, they should be responsive to the kinds of health care Americans are relying on," said Gary Jones, federal manager of the Christian Science Committee on Publication. "That should include skilled nonmedical nursing care and treatment through prayer."
Believe in what you want, but don’t expect me to or my ilk to fund your delusions.
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anfractuous · 759 weeks ago
I was brought up as a Christian Scientist, and I know they would disagree vehemently at being lumped in with either Scientology, the L Ron Hubbard pseudo religion, or with Church of Christ, the fundie group. I am now an atheist, so I’m not defending Christian Scientists’ push to have prayer instead of medical treatment funded; just wanted to clear up the factual error about the name of the group in your post.
BTW, I also don’t think we should fund the woo treatments, like acupuncture, homeopathy, etc, either, but good luck with trying to get them excluded.
Mojoey 107p · 755 weeks ago
Mojoey 107p · 755 weeks ago
@Skepticeye · 759 weeks ago
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Buffy 83p · 759 weeks ago
""That should include skilled nonmedical nursing care"
People can already get coverage for CNAs and other legitimate home care options. But if you want your insurance company to pay for some dude to come out and do magic incantations you're asking too much.