Editorial January 6, 1992 Issue

Are you adding up darkness or counting on light?

Allison W. Phinney, Jr.

In many ways, there still seems to be plenty of darkness around. We'd probably agree these times don't quite fit the description of a purely golden age! In fact, we might sometimes be tempted to add all the darkness up. Why all the famine, war, new disease, political disregard for truth and honesty, stupid materialism rampant? Why all the darkness?

From the standpoint of Christian Science, there is something seriously wrong with the question. It's not wrong to probe, to inquire, but so long as we persist in holding on to this particular question in this form, we find it difficult to have much light or progress.

If there could actually be an answer to "Why all that darkness?" we wouldn't be satisfied with the answer, because it would simply confirm the "reality" of what we know in our hearts must be profoundly unright and unreal. It would appear to make evil real; and God, who is infinite good, unreal.

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