Article January 24, 1931 Issue

It should be axiomatic that no man's religion shall be...

Kellogg Patton, Committee on Publication for the State of Wisconsin,—Plymouth

Review-Herald-Reporter

It should be axiomatic that no man's religion shall be made the butt of ridicule. According to Webster's dictionary ridicule means "remarks concerning a subject or a person, designed to excite laughter with a degree of contempt for the subject of the remarks." Surely all should agree that religious teachings, which men and women hold sacred, should not be thus treated. It was possibly through an error that the teachings of Christian Science were ignorantly caricatured in a few lines intended to be humorous, in the issue of your paper of November 14th. The teaching of Christian Science is referred to in these lines as though this Science teaches that one only thinks he is ill or dead.

Christian Science does teach that disease and death are unreal. It further teaches that these errors are part of the experience of mortals. Christian Science declares, however, that mortal, material man is not the real man. It teaches that the real man is made in the image and likeness of God, of Spirit, and is therefore wholly spiritual and immortal. Into the experience of this real, immortal, spiritual man, no sin, sickness, nor death can enter. It is to this real spiritual man that death is unreal, and in fact unknown. To the extent that anyone accepts this statement of God and the real man and universe, and adopts it into his thinking and acting, he can begin to understand the unreality of sin, sickness, and death in Christian Science. This accords with Christ Jesus' statement, "If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death."

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