I've kept away from this thread since it's turned into Ron Davis assuming virtually everyone else is an atheist and insulting them for it... but this question occurs to me, asked of those who think health and social care professionals bringing their private belief systems onto the job is a good and sensible thing: when is it not okay? Who shouldn't do it? Or do you extend your invitation to make the private public to all shades of religious, political and cultural opinion, and to all client/patient/service user groups no matter how vulnerable or powerless?

I ask this as a health and social care practitioner who keeps his personal views private on the job as a matter of ethical and professional good practice.