Should Your Tax Dollars Pay for Christian Science?

[soulman35]

Finally, I want to say that even as a Christian Scientist, I have to agree that your logic concerning the government's role is correct and the implications of the health care plan are exactly as you describe. If my tax dollars have to go toward covering your preferred form of treatment which I don't subscribe to, then why shouldn't your tax dollars help me to get the treatment of my choice that you don't support? There is a lot to Christian Science. Try to be respectful when using our books.

[soulman35]

To finish my point... to use the illustration from Christ and Christmas (an illustrated poem by Mary Baker Eddy) without it's accompanying text and pictures which are meant to bring out metaphysical ideas "through song and object-lesson" and to jam it up against the picture of the fetus which implies abortion, is sensationalistic, careless, and unfair both to that book, and to the viewers who are unfamiliar with the true context of a book which presents intelligently it's subject, healing.

[soulman35]

There is some reasoning here that is legitimate. There are various biases that come through however. One of them is to call Christian Science a form of "alternative medicine". Alternative to what? The assumption is that material medicine should be considered the norm just because it is in the majority. I find it manipulative to place the picture of the fetus (implying abortion) back to back with the picture of healing over and over. That picture should not be ripped from it's context that way.

[normanjimmy]

A logical argument for limiting government to what it should be doing -- defending Life, Liberty & Private Property -- and nothing else.