In today's moral climate the person who believes in unequivocal moral and ethical standards may well feel at odds with society. Books, television, movies, friends, may all seem to be marching to a different drummer. Tremendous mental pressure is exerted on one to get in step with the beat of the times. Assaulted by this mesmeric mental barrage, people sometimes begin to doubt their inherent sense of right and wrong. They may even lose sight of why there are moral standards, or cease to believe that such standards exist.
Another common response to societal and moral decay is to adopt religious fundamentalism, wherein unquestioning obedience to moral precepts becomes an end in itself. Such an approach may lose sight of Spirit and grace by focusing on the outward act of obedience instead of inner regeneration and the purification of affections.
Christian Science points out the way for those who cannot accept either a materialistic amorality or an authoritarian moralism. Reconciling reason and revelation, scientific Christianity declares a spiritual rationale for moral standards.
