Article April 11, 1994 Issue

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Silencing the trash-talker!

The Christian Science Monitor

What's trash-talking? If you're a sports nut, as I am, you know what it is. Athletes sometimes try to scare each other by making aggressive or threatening remarks while they are competing. That's trash-talking.

Whether you play sports or not, there is another kind of trash-talker that can try to scare us. Sometimes it can sound like a voice in our thinking, saying horrible things. Sometimes it can be more a feeling than a voice. And sometimes the actions or words of others bother us or frighten us.

To me it's like the serpent the Bible tells us about in Genesis—the one that tricked Adam and Eve into disobeying God. Mrs. Eddy talks about this snake in her book Science and Health. She says:"Whence comes a talking, lying serpent to tempt the children of divine Love? The serpent enters into the metaphor only as evil. We have nothing in the animal kingdom which represents the species described,—a talking serpent,—and should rejoice that evil, by whatever figure presented, contradicts itself and has neither origin nor support in Truth and good. Seeing this, we should have faith to fight all claims of evil, because we know that they are worthless and unreal" (p. 529).

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