I don't like it when people offer to pray for me, but if they accept "no thanks" or are vaguely quiet and tactful about it I can ignore it. I know for example my mum prays for me or Kirstie but in a "wishing us peace" rather than "fixing stuff she disagrees" with type of way.
The NHS is full of religious folk, it's horribly religious - it's only just recently started accepting non CofE on med stuff. I used to get harassed by hospital vicars all the time, even my mum thought they were annoying bastards and used to help me make them go away. They were second only to the "teachers" on children's wards. I seem to recall having both the vicar and teacher hassling me last time I wasn an inpatient and requesting that the nurses made them both fuck off and leave me alone kthx etc - the vicar buggered off, the teacher didn't.
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Date: 2009-02-02 12:50 pm (UTC)I don't like it when people offer to pray for me, but if they accept "no thanks" or are vaguely quiet and tactful about it I can ignore it. I know for example my mum prays for me or Kirstie but in a "wishing us peace" rather than "fixing stuff she disagrees" with type of way.
The NHS is full of religious folk, it's horribly religious - it's only just recently started accepting non CofE on med stuff. I used to get harassed by hospital vicars all the time, even my mum thought they were annoying bastards and used to help me make them go away. They were second only to the "teachers" on children's wards. I seem to recall having both the vicar and teacher hassling me last time I wasn an inpatient and requesting that the nurses made them both fuck off and leave me alone kthx etc - the vicar buggered off, the teacher didn't.