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

[wildbadger.livejournal.com]

I agree, but also think it depends to some extent on the nature of the interaction. Offers of prayer can be either sincere expressions of goodwill, or quite unpleasant and manipulative.

Compulsory religion in schools concerns me far more, as the audience is equally captive.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

That's different, they're children - who gives a damn what they want so long as their voting parents get what they want?

[henry_the_cow]

LJ says "(Reply to this)(Parent)" which in this instance I take as an instruction...

Generally, parents get little say about the religion taught in schools, unless they send their children to a faith-based school, or cause them embarrassment by insisting that they don't attend assembly/RE classes/whatever. (Come to think of it, I don't even know if that's an option in our school).

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

heh... I guess I was mainly thinking of religious schools - I forgot about the compulsory daily act of worship.