In the past several years, society has shown increasing concern over the dangers inherent in personal domination. Mind control, child abuse, and other unhealthy relationships have received this awakened attention.
Sometimes these phases of thought control have been practiced in the name of religion; the tragic deaths at Jonestown, Guyana, for example, occurred in such a setting. This stratagem of evil is nothing new. Two thousand years ago Christ Jesus warned, "Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves."Matt. 7:15. Nor is this method of attack surprising, for evil by its illusive nature seeks not only to deny God's authority but to counterfeit that authority by masquerading as good. Then, how is one to distinguish between the "false prophets" and the true?
Christian Science supports one in making this decision through its insistence on free moral agency, a policy that no tyrant could adopt, because freedom of choice undermines tyranny. In Christian Science all are encouraged to turn to God, not to mortal opinion, for guidance. Such a stand for freedom springs from what Christian Science reveals of the nature of reality itself.
