Article April 29, 1996 Issue

A QUESTIONS & ANSWERS EXCHANGE

editorial staff

Are there questions you'd like to explore with other readers and with the editorial staff of the Christian Science Sentinel? This column offers a place for that exchange to happen. What's here isn't intended to give a definitive answer. The queries and the ideas spring from the heart, as we are walking side by side.

Q. Aren't you really just avoiding life by being innocent? Don't you have to experience evil to understand what life is really about?—from an inquirer in Seattle, Washington

A. Have you ever seen fool's gold? It's a mineral called pyrite, sometimes mistaken for gold. Like pyrite, evil is often mistakenly believed to somehow be good—desirable to experience, useful to know. Yet, having seen enough lives wrecked by indulging in evil in one way or another, one has to conclude there's nothing desirable or useful about it.

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