The meat of human politics is sometimes defined as working out who gets what (and when) of the finite "pies" of material power and wealth. The teachings of Christian Science—like those of Christ Jesus —are metaphysical, however. Eminently practical, they deal with the basic spiritual realities of power, man, substance, good— with divine power rather than personal influence; spiritual supply rather than material wealth; divine good rather than physical goods; the universal family of God's concordant ideas rather than international rivalries. These realities reveal the spiritual truth in place of adverse material conditions.
According to a recent calculation only 20 percent of the world's population live in political freedom, with 35 percent partly free and 45 percent not free. We need alertness to the claim that political theories and their practices are forceful molders of the way we live, no matter what our nation. If we're not spiritually resistant, we may come to believe that political ideologies can determine the measure and the proportions of suffering or ease, poorness or affluence, ignorance or enlightenment, we experience. Political ideologies, no less than pathological theories and theological concepts, can affect the life of each of us.
Hence the need that the unique enlightenment of Christian metaphysics be brought to bear on political situations and elections. In addition to applying the truth of being to physical health problems we should give healing attention to other means by which human well-being is curtailed.
