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YOUR QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

Following the example set by the question-and-answer columns in the early Journals, when Mary Eddy was Editor, this column will respond to general queries from Journal readers—such as the one above—with responses from Journal readers. It will not cover questions about how to interpret statements in Mrs. Eddy's writings. There's more information at the end of the column about how to submit questions.

YOUR QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

By BARBARA FIFE, KLAUS-HENDRIK HERR, RYDER STEVENS

From the January 2007 issue of The Christian Science Journal

QUESTION: Witnessing the response of Amish people to the recent shootings here in the US, we have been seeing many newspaper articles praising them, and rightly, and rightly, for their immediate forgiveness. Since I was a child, I have been baffled that there are so many Christians and Christian Scientists who are willing to be in armies and go to war.