[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"$fjVgkPFh5_SnN4b_yrQL3lnAbbdVSLMaCKc43SkGjzLw":3,"$fSd6JuYCae9Fs5pa9NW33XvR0dcjSSz3SXvvaap-qKVI":12},{"author":4,"tags":11},{"author_id":5,"author_name":6,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"bio":9,"short_bio":9,"slug":10,"image_url":9},6340,"Caroline Fraser","C",40,null,"caroline-fraser",[],{"quotes":13,"pagination":77},[14,22,28,35,41,47,53,59,65,71],{"id":15,"quote_text":16,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":19,"source":20,"quote_tag":21,"commentary":9},3593288,"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.",7,false,{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":23,"quote_text":24,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":25,"source":26,"quote_tag":27,"commentary":9},3593268,"Americans are squeamish about anything that seems to punish people for their religious beliefs.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":29,"quote_text":30,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":31,"source":32,"quote_tag":33,"commentary":34},3593256,"Fortunately, most religious people accept medicine as a gift from God and reap the benefits of both realms.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],"**The Backstory**\nCaroline Fraser, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \"Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder,\" is likely the source of this quote. The era in which she wrote this passage is characterized by a growing recognition of the importance of science and medicine in modern society, alongside a continued reverence for religious traditions. This quote is likely from a book or essay written during her research into the life of Laura Ingalls Wilder, who struggled with the intersection of faith and medicine in her own life.\n\n**The Hidden Insight**\nThis quote reveals a nuanced understanding of the human experience, highlighting the complex interplay between spirituality and scientific inquiry. By acknowledging that most religious people can accept medicine as a gift from God, Fraser is pointing out that faith and reason are not mutually exclusive, but rather complementary aspects of the human experience. The tension in this quote lies in the fact that it challenges the common perception of a binary opposition between science and religion, instead suggesting that they can coexist and even inform one another.\n\n**How to Use This**\nTo apply this mindset in your own life, consider how you can integrate your spiritual or philosophical beliefs with your pursuit of scientific knowledge or professional goals. Rather than viewing these aspects of your life as separate or contradictory, try to find ways in which they can inform and enrich one another, leading to a more holistic and satisfying experience.",{"id":36,"quote_text":37,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":38,"source":39,"quote_tag":40,"commentary":9},3593243,"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.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":42,"quote_text":43,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":44,"source":45,"quote_tag":46,"commentary":9},3593228,"Christian Science has always appealed to the middle-classes and the upper middle classes. In part, this is because it requires a certain amount of education to study 'Science and Health' to the degree that Christian scientists do. It's not an easy book to read! It's 700 pages, and it's written in a nineteenth-century manner and diction.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":48,"quote_text":49,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":50,"source":51,"quote_tag":52,"commentary":9},3593220,"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.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":54,"quote_text":55,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":56,"source":57,"quote_tag":58,"commentary":9},3593208,"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.'",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":60,"quote_text":61,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":62,"source":63,"quote_tag":64,"commentary":9},3593196,"I think that Mary Baker Eddy was a fascinating character in American religious history.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":66,"quote_text":67,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":68,"source":69,"quote_tag":70,"commentary":9},3593184,"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.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":72,"quote_text":73,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":74,"source":75,"quote_tag":76,"commentary":9},3593170,"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.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"currentPage":78,"totalPages":79,"totalItems":8,"itemsPerPage":80},1,4,10]