Sleepy Rosie... can I please draw your attention to this post of yours... or at least your last statement ...a PS to Little Hawk....

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Subject: RE: BS: Nurse Suspended for praying ????
From: Sleepy Rosie - PM
Date: 06 Feb 09 - 08:31 AM

Regards my own local vicar, a friend of mine went to speak with him about some mental and emotional troubles she was going through. My friend is ironically agnostic, even atheist leaning. But she was in a state of desperation and although I don't know exactly why she sought out the vicar. She told me it was some of the most grounded and useful guidance and advice she had ever recieved. He responded to her personal troubles with compassion and intelligence, but he never mixed his religion into it. His own religious training and his work ethic, presumably doesn't include proselytisation, even with those who actively seek him out for his professional pastoral duties.

I think this example, and the one Ruth Archer above cites, demostrate why people actually get trained to do this kind of work. And indeed why other 'well meaning' individuals are not equipped to dabble in spiritual ministering. There are people out there who take their work seriously and understand that you just can't go around inflicting your religion on strangers.

PS, Little Hawk, I think that some of your last comments were innapropriate and rude, even verging on personal attack. And you may think me a loudmouth, but at least I'm not inclined to reduce an otherwise rational and well mannered debate, into unwarranted and indeed somewhat offensive personal criticisms.<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<


What are you not inclined to do SleepyRosie?