Posted: Feb 28, 2012 11:20 pm
Lion IRC wrote:z8000783 wrote:Lion IRC wrote:A hospice - a place where people go to die - offering spiritual support, a place which has bereavement services and chaplains, clergy and employees who are Christians.....
Shocking! I can't imagine how hard that must be for you - a healthy person - to have to put up with.
I know!
Maybe you can find work at an atheists-only hospice.
FIFY
There is nothing "secular" about a hospice. It's not a place where you impose church/state separation, "political correctness" on sick and dying people and their carers. I'm astonished that a great big strong healthy atheist cant cope with something as culturally ORGANIC and central to our spirituality as human beings as prayer - also referred to in the bible as meditation.
I used to volunteer at a hospice. I was very popular and got many referrals. Turns out a lot of people don't want to spend their last days getting preached at, even if they aren't atheists themselves. One codger said 'Send over that damned atheist, at least he's not trying to get me to pray every ten minutes!'.