Tag: ask a religious scientist

The answer is absolutely not. The Church of Scientology is based on the writings of L. Ron Hubbard and its practices are very secretive, closed and expensive.

In Religious Science, we know that what has gone before may have absolutely nothing to do with the future if we, as a race, make new choices.

We believe in God…one, indestructible, absolute, and self-existent Cause.” We believe that God is not a separate presence, but rather a creative force that moves in through and as all creation but is not absorbed by its creation.

Although the Unitarian movement began as a Christian movement, redefining Jesus as a prophet and God as a single power and releasing the concept of the trinity, the modern Unitarian Universalists have little resemblance to the initial beliefs of the 16th and 17th century Unitarians.

Most people are given a spiritual path or religion as children, based on their families and/or culture. As people mature, they quite often question the beliefs they were raised with and find new answers within their teaching or begin looking for something that speaks to their own personal beliefs more closely.

After many years of being an agnostic and finding my salvation through “drugs, sex and rock and roll,” I awoke to the fact that I needed to find a new way of living.

On the surface, Christian Science and Religious Science beliefs may seem close; however there are some basic differences between the teachings of Mary Baker Eddy (Christian Science) and Ernest Holmes (Religious Science).