What other religions besides Catholicism are against abortion & contraception, with no exceptions?

[ALLGIRLS]

What exactly is the Christian Scientist view about medicine? Are they allowed to say, get a broken bone set? I remember reading years ago about a couple that was charged in their child’s death because the child died from complications of untreated diabetes. The couple just continually prayed over the child for healing, while he/she (can’t remember the gender) went into a diabetic coma and died. Is this common? If so, I can’t see how they’d be allowed to go get a prescription for the pill or iud or diaphragm, or have a sterilization surgery or an aborton. It seems hypocritial. They can’t see doctors to heal an actual illness, but they can to destroy healthy fertility?

In Christ,
Ellen

 

[sojo]

I’ve been reading up on Christian Science. Its a very interesting religion! Apparently, they are softening their stance against medicine, at least publicly, after the recent number of child deaths and law suits. Also, their numbers (of adherents) has serious dwindled of late, and they are trying to reach out to new converts with a softer, kinder stance on medicine. Their current view is that it is up to each individual family to what degree they use a combination of modern medicine with prayer.

It is a very interesting sect, though it appears to be slowly dying off. There are only 1,400 healing practitioners left in the USA, and the average age of a parishioner is now elderly.

I know only a few CS’s myself, and they all would not hesitate to go to the doctor to get a bone set, wound sewn up or a a good antibiotic for an infection. But then again, I know Catholics who use birth control, many with “permission” from their parish priest. So no doubt not everyone who belongs to the Church is going to be orthodox in how they follow its tenets.

From their website:

Relationship with Western medicine

It’s up to each person who practices Christian Science to choose the form of health care he or she wants. Many Christian Scientists decide to pray first about every challenge—including health issues—and find it effective. Many health care professionals today are recognizing options outside of conventional medicine. Christian Scientists recognize and respect the interests of medical professionals and don’t oppose them. We all care about the preventive and curative aspects of health care. Like all systems of healing, the track record for Christian Science isn’t perfect. But, over 80,000 Christian Science healings have been published throughout the past 140 years, including severe cases.

Here’s the link: christianscience.com/what-is-christian-science#relationship-with-western-medicine

 

[Texsain]

Sojo,

Thanks for the info on Christian Science. I have never read much about them, since I don’t know any. I used to live in Boston where the mother church is, and I was amazed at how many people there got it confused with Scientology. I would often hear things like “that Church was built with Tom Cruise’s money.” Not only is it the wrong religion, but the church was built before Tom Cruise was born. Comments like that cut to the heart of the public’s ignorance of religion in general, not just Catholicism.

 

[exiled]

The Amish??