[UA] Re: UA digest, Vol 1 #497 - 26 msgs

[Bill Wonch]

Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 12:11:20 -0600
To: ua at lists.uchicago.edu
From: Gregory Paul Stolze <holycrow at mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: [UA] Medicine and Religion
Reply-To: ua at lists.uchicago.edu

At 06:07 PM 12/07/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>In <3A3007BA.7C8BF3A1 at wanadoo.es>, on 12/07/00
>   at 10:57 PM, Mario Magallanes <aegis at wanadoo.es> said:
>
>>Now, how much sense does this? I know there are sects whose beliefs
>>forbid certain types of medical intervention, but can somebody
>>provide a real world example? It would be easier for me if I have a
>>start point.
>
>AIUI, the Christian Scientists don't believe in any medical treatment
>at all.  They've got a website at http://www.christianscience.org

I could be wrong, but I suspect that (like most religions) there are
degrees of devotedness in Christian Science.  I find it hard to imagine
them refusing treatment for a seriously injury like a compound fracture.
However, I'm pretty sure that illness is different...

-G.
Critics are like medical students: they always think a writer is suffering
from the very disease they happen to be studying at the time.
-Milorad Pavic

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I had a high school teacher that was also a Christian Scientist, and we
frequently argued about his religion.  During one of our more heated
debates, I asked him what would happen if his daughter caught appendicitis,
and had to have surgery to live.  His reply?  "No one ever has to have
surgery."

I can't say that all Christian Scientists are this strict in following their
religion, as I've only ever known this one.  But from my conversations with
him, it certainly sounded like this level of belief was not uncommon.

Bill

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