Article October 21, 1972 Issue

The Need to Object

THOMAS HOFFMAN

Most of us object to something—a policy, a law, a television commercial, something. There is much in life that provokes vigorous disapproval. But many objectionable situations can be changed —even prevented from becoming continuing impositions on the public—when individuals positively, constructively, oppose what is undesirable. An example is the banning of cigarette commercials on television.

How about bringing our energies and efforts to bear against the real offender, mortal mind, or the belief in a life apart from God? This so-called mind falsely takes on the identity of places, people, and things. We need to object to its errors—to whatever defeats or debases. The whole endeavor can purify what seems impure, heal what is sick, and bless the whole race. We need a definite method to effect these results.

A Christian Science approach to any problem is stated by Mary Baker Eddy in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures: "A spiritual idea has not a single element of error, and this truth removes properly whatever is offensive."^{Science and Health, p. 463;}