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In the hospital, the best it generally gets is relief. If healthcare professionals were honest, they would admit that they are just like most of the rest of secular society. They avoid eye contact. The demur at the thought of explicitly acknowledging suffering or their failure to make it all go away.
— Oct 05, 2025 06:09PM
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Ethics can make no sense of this. The way healthcare professionals behave in response to the reality of suffering may raise plenty of questions for ethics. But ethics itself will not help them see their way through this. They can walk away. But the spiritual will be there again in the next morning. In the corridor. Weeping.
— Oct 05, 2025 06:10PM
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I do not believe God made us as creatures divided thus asunder. I do not believe we are under any compulsion to check our brains in at a jar by the door before entering the sanctuary; nor do I believe we should debate our hearts before we enter the theology library.
— Oct 05, 2025 06:08PM
