Church Crawl - Part 8: Christian Science

As an interesting bit of trivia about the Christian Science group, it turns out Metallica founding member James Hetfield's parents were devout followers of Christian Science.

Both this parents died of cancer, after refusing all treatment.

Church of Jesus Christ, Scientist

The facilities were by far one of the more impressive around town. It was a nutty building with pillars and a dome up top. Sort of like the United States Capitol Building, but not nearly as cool.

As we walked in we realized that the service was held upstairs inside the dome.

It was very nifty, as it was surrounded in windows and the entire place was ridiculously clean. I guess rejecting modern medicines would make one sort of obsessive about cleanliness.

The entire session was choreographed. A pamplet was given out that outlined what sections of which books was to be read that day. If my memory serves me right, it also included what was to be read on the Sundays of that month.

At the front, there were two characters.

A woman read from the Bible as slowing and monotonously as possible.

As the passage ended, the torch was passed to a man (or eunuch?) standing beside her that would read from the writings of Mary Baker Eddy. Mary Baker Eddy seems to be to Christian Science what the pope is to Catholicism.

What else can I say?

They're nucking futs.

That said, The Christian Science Monitor is actually an interesting news source.