Praying nurses

[ciphergoth]

Nurse suspended without pay for offering to pray for a patient during a home visit - what do you think?

(Snowed in today, trying to work from home but it's not really a workplace atmosphere around here today :-)

Updated: the patient is described as a Christian in the article. One wonders if this means Christian as in really a Christian, or "Christian I suppose" which AFAICT is the majority religion of the UK. Updated: actually "have Christian beliefs myself" is more like the phrasing I'd expect from someone who takes it seriously.

Comments

[cookwitch.livejournal.com]

Part of me thinks it is an overreaction on the patient's part. However, if you are a Christian and wish to pray for someone you do not have to tell them. The power of prayer is not dependent on being right there with the person. Surely you could just get on and do it?

I find the whole thing quite odd, to be honest. I read it yesterday and went "Eh?"