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" I think that Mary Baker Eddy was a fascinating character in American religious history. "

Caroline Fraser

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" Americans are squeamish about anything that seems to punish people for their religious beliefs. "

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" Christian Science has been enormously influential in our religious history, and the church is very powerful. It has won an extraordinary number of legal battles in this country. It has succeeded in passing a number of what are called 'religious exemption laws.' "

Caroline Fraser

" Christian Science is often inherited, and like many inheritances, it comes with family secrets. The religion encourages secrecy. Members of the Church tend to hide their illnesses from one another, even within families. My father has never once, in my presence, admitted to feeling ill. "

Caroline Fraser

" Fortunately, most religious people accept medicine as a gift from God and reap the benefits of both realms. "

Caroline Fraser

" I was afraid to admit feeling ill because even when I was 4 or 5, I knew that my father viewed sickness as a sign of weakness, of sin, of disobedience. "

Caroline Fraser

" Nearly every Christian Scientist I have known has been involved with the Church from childhood and has a long family connection to it, going back several generations. "

Caroline Fraser

" Christian Scientists not only don't like to acknowledge illness; they don't like to see it. On occasion, I was sent to my room from the dinner table for sneezing or coughing; I now know that I was allergic to our cat. "

Caroline Fraser

" As a teenager, I had been growing away from the beliefs of the church, but one of the main things that caused me to question Christian Science was that the year that I left home to go to college, a boy who I knew in my Sunday School, whose name was Michael Schram, who was 12 years old, died at home of a ruptured appendix. "

Caroline Fraser

" My father was a particularly zealous Christian Scientist, but young Christian Science children, who have little choice but to believe what their parents are telling them, are taught that illness originates in errors in their parents' and, eventually, their own thinking. "

Caroline Fraser

" Between the fictional Laura of the books and the even more heavily fictionalized girl of the TV show, we've tended to lose sight of the fact that Laura Ingalls Wilder was a real person who was complicated and intense. "

Caroline Fraser