Comments on: Don’t pray for me Great Britain

By: Veronica

Veronica — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:39:11 +0000

Hey, maybe itÅ? just the way I see the world right now, but aren’t you people making a big deal out of nothing? I mean, the woman didn’t even get offended. I understand that it’s not professional for a nurse to do that, but the repercussions of this are just way out of proportion.
I honestly believe that most atheits are becaming as religious are any other religious people, reaceting exactly the same way they do. I don’t believe in disrespecting people’s beliefs simply because I’d like mu disbelief respected and I don’t believe we’re gonna get any respect by acting just like they do.
I’m sorry for the rampant, but I’ve been seeing this a lot lately in atheist blogs and it scares the crap out of me.

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:05:28 +0000

There is a slightly sinister organization that seems to have been behind the creation of both this story, and pretty much every similar story that's been in the UK press recently... see here.

By: MikeB

MikeB — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:04:23 +0000

The Mail is leading the charge with this nonsense, but the Telegraph (another bastion of dappyness) is on the case as well.

Personally, I think the whole thing is creepy – being prayed for is not only intrusive, it smacks of having the last rites read over you. If you want to pray for your patient, you go for it – but its between you and your God, don’t get the rest of us involved.

Christian are hardly persecuted here in the UK – the C of E is the state church, you can even get to sit in the House of Lords if you become an archbishop, and the government has been busy encouraging Christian used car salesmen and the like to set up schools with my money to teach creationism.

I just try to ignore them, its easier on the blood pressure.

By: CyberLizard

CyberLizard — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:12:22 +0000

My father-in-law had to deal with this kind of crap recently from the local 7DA run hospital. I so wish they would pull that crap with me. Sure, I'll pray with you. Dear Satan, please strike down the arrogant, hypocritical bitch sitting here next to me... Watching 'em squirm is the fun part.

By: chris y

chris y — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:56:34 +0000

This is Melanie Phillips, n’est-ce-pas? Wingnut extraordinaire and professional Islamophobe. Think an Anglo-Jewish version of that Filipina-American woman whose name I can never commit to memory. She writes for a paper which makes Rupert Murdoch look like a red hot socialist.

Paying attention only encourages them.

By: Dave X

Dave X — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:42:01 +0000

If she prayed to the devil, instead of just believing in devils and such, do you think the the people who would not currently object to prayers might begin to object?

By: UKGP

UKGP — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:30:31 +0000

“Sacked” means “fired from a job”
“Struck off” means having a name removed from a professional register, General Nursing Council’s. If she were, she’d lose the right to work as a nurse or call herself one.

By: UKGP

UKGP — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:28:50 +0000

By: Phillip IV

Phillip IV — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:21:45 +0000

I’d assume that ‘struck off’ refers to the nurse register – so she’d not only lose her current employment, she would also lose her status as a registered nurse, preventing her from finding another position in the field.