The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #136372   Message #3231067
Posted By: John P
29-Sep-11 - 09:40 AM
Thread Name: BS: Christian Persecution
Subject: RE: BS: Christian Persecution
A holistic approach to healing includes seeing to the spiritual, emotional, and mental needs of the patient as well as the physical. Trying to call Christian proselytizing an attempt at a holistic healing, however, is stretching that definition to the breaking point. Unless you are sure the patient is a religious person and wants to talk about, you just don't do it. The spiritual needs of the patient rarely includes being preached at. "Spiritual" and "religion" don't mean the same thing at all.

The practitioner's job is to step outside of the themselves and provide what the patient needs, not what the practitioner believes.