As long as we can all agree

why should we all agree with you - it's one opinion and we should all be entitled to our own.

For myself, I am a nurse who visits people in their own homes for chronic disease management(not a district nurse). I have also in the past done a degree in theology and worked for awhile at a benedictine monastery. I have my own opinions on the matter, formed by my past and present experience and the terms and conditions of my current employment, but I've followed this thread carefully and although tempted to pass comment I feel now to dare to do so would result in a backlash of personal attack which I could just not deal with.

My point on the poster's childhood--which I of course know nothing about---was that my assertion had as much validity as his that an offer of prayer is a "violation" of anything. Neither assertion has any validity whatsoever.

the difference is, one is an opinion and the other is a direct and nasty personal attack (about something you admittedly know nothing about).