During Mary Baker Eddy's time a hundred years ago the General Welfare Principle was written in big letters across America, and across Europe to some degree. People were helping and supporting one another. Large scale homelessness was unheard of a hundred years ago, and unemployment negligible, even violence wasn't a big thing. Now our world has become a sewer. People have almost come to quite literally to live in the sewer in many different ways, even physically. Homelessness and unemployment have become huge around the world, and poverty so enormous that every single day over fifty thousand people die from poverty, starvation, and other artificial causes that are all preventable. Tragically, the victims are mostly children. And even that doesn't move our modern society into effective action to change its global policies.

In addition to this loss of our humanity as human beings we have created an economic system that is built of stealing from one another on a vast and global scale. The annual turnover in financial gambling that produces nothing of value for society, but draws huge profits that therefore are literally stolen, now stands at a staggering estimated 9,000 trillion dollars equivalent in worldwide gambling contracts. This insanely massive financial gambling happens while in the background countless masses are denied the means to exist, and this on such an enormous scale that 50,000 are put to death thereby needlessly every single day. In addition it has also become quite acceptable to society in recent years to torture people in prisons, and many to their death, and to maintain a worldwide arsenal of nearly 40,000 strategic nuclear bombs, and to build new ones again. There are even plans in place (Summer 2005), with weapons already pre-deployed, to bomb Iran with mini-nukes, with the intent to destroy still another country.

None of this insanity existed in the background in Mary Baker Eddy's world, but it does so today. The sad reality is that virtually nobody cares enough to stop the insanity from being carried out. Thus, most people support the insanity, as indeed society actively supports the greatest economic insanity in history in the form of the biggest slavery operations that were ever set up. The Western imperial world has become so insane that it is shutting down its own industries, throwing its skilled labor onto the street, while it is demanding China and other poor countries to produce the goods for them as people are desperate enough there to work  at wage levels that in many cases provide a living that is worth than slavery had been, with no social support, no pensions, no health care, and barely enough food to subsist, etc.. All of this happens in full knowledge of the Western society as it gobbles up the cheap products in its cheap-import stores.

Does one see even the Christian Scientists of society launching a meaningful effort to stop the inhumanities, as Jesus had suggested in the case of a man who came to offer his gift for atonement?

No, one doesn't see such efforts being made. In fact there are very few in the world today who make such efforts, and most of them are slandered and ridiculed like the LaRouche Political Action Committee and the LaRouche Youth Movement are that are aiming to uplift society and bring the great renaissance principles back into the sphere of the world's political and economic policies.

Were does our modern society's huge loss of its humanity place that society, and probably the Christian Science field along with it, when seen in the context of Christ Jesus' parables, especially the parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:30)? With his parable of the Good Samaritan Christ Jesus presents us a perfect yardstick to judge ourselves with. He speaks of a man that has been robbed by thieves, been injured, and been left half dead by the wayside, abandoned to die. Doesn't that describe quite accurately the tragedy in the modern world that is fast destroying our once rich civilization?

In the parable a priest comes that way where the injured man has been left to die. He sees the man and immediately takes a detour, pretending not to have seen him. Isn't that what nearly the whole of Western society is doing today? Those 'priests' are the ones who make their living by stealing from society in the financial markets. Also they are those who line up at the checkout counters of the slavery product stores, etc.. Everyone pretends not to see the reality before his or her eyes, like the priest in the parable.

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