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Be truthful, not neutral
Originally published in The Christian Science Monitor’s Christian Science Perspective column June 6, 2025.
Most people want to be fair. One side of the story isn’t enough; we want to know and consider varying points of view. And if, after garnering information from varying quarters, we discern one point of view is true and right and another appears to be incorrect or distorted, we probably would not want to continue endorsing both sides of that particular issue. In good conscience, and in fairness to ourselves and others, we could not be neutral if that meant compromising the truth by giving credibility to both honest and deceptive narratives.
There’s a spiritual foundation empowering truthfulness, a quality that’s innate to God’s children, which includes all of us. Truth is one of the Bible-based synonyms for God that Mary Baker Eddy, the discoverer of Christian Science, has enumerated to give us greater insight into the nature and identity of God.
As Truth, God’s being includes only what is genuine, authentic, uncorrupted, incorruptible, trustworthy. Whatever is of God, of Truth, is the natural mode of thinking and acting. In the Christian Science textbook, we read, “Man is the expression of God’s being” (Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 470). Our true nature is not that of mortals attracted to, or tempted by, dishonesty of any kind; it is entirely spiritual—the expression or reflection of divine Truth.
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