Editorial March 26, 1977 Issue

Teaching the Nothingness of Evil

Naomi Price

That is wrong, this is right. That is error, this is truth. Unless children are taught to distinguish between good and evil, they are ill equipped for living in a world that is, according to human belief, partly mortal, or material, and partly immortal, or spiritual. At this stage in the development of human thought it is not enough to know only the nature of God, even though God and His universe are all that really exist. Children as well as adults need to be alert to the claims of false, mortal belief so that they can resist them, prove their nothingness, and be protected from the unhappiness and discord such claims may otherwise generate.

Human parents are fulfilling a natural role and an important responsibility when they teach their children not only the absolute truth of the allness of good but the name and nature of evil—the falsity of that which claims to exist as the opposite of good. This education can begin at earliest stages of babyhood as a normal sequence to the prayerful preparation the parents have already done before the birth occurred.

During the prenatal months, if the parents are students of Christian Science, they have been learning to identify the coming child as an individual, perfect, spiritual idea of God, divine Principle, the only creator. They will have endeavored to detach their thought from the claims of matter so that the infant will neither suffer nor cause suffering. They will have specifically denied world beliefs concerning human birth and existence so that not only will the birth be harmonious but the development of the child will be progressively expansive and healthy.

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