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- A sect, the Church of Christ, Scientist,
- established in the USA by Mary Baker Eddy
- 1879. Christian Scientists believe that since
- God is good and is a spirit, matter and evil
- are not ultimately real. Consequently they
- refuse all medical treatment. It has its own
- daily newspaper, the Christian Science
- Monitor. Christian Science is regarded by its
- adherents as the restatement of primitive
- Christianity with its full gospel of
- salvation from all evil, including sickness
- and disease as well as sin. According to its
- adherents, Christian Science healing is
- brought about by the operation of truth in
- human conscience. There is no ordained
- priesthood, but there are public
- practitioners of Christian Science healing
- who are officially authorized. The
- headquarters of the First Church of Christ,
- Scientist is in Boston, Massachusetts, with
- branches in most parts of the world. The
- textbook of Christian Science is Eddy's
- Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
- 1875.
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