Christian Science. Christian Science is disappearing. The churches are closing. Barely 1,000 “practitioners” still offer their services. By denying the reality of illness and preaching against the use of medicine, the church has caused untold suffering to believers and — less forgivably — to their children. Religious exemptions have sheltered Christian Scientists from prosecution for child neglect, and allowed them to opt out of public health programmes. “The church deserves to die, and it is dying. It just can’t happen soon enough”. Further information.
