Sunday, July 11, 2004
The Missing
Reading back through several of my more morbid posts (which are gradually all being stuck, one by one onto lingualnerve.com... i'm perverse that way. If the mood is too sombre, i'll have to post a happy post, and if it's too ecstatic, i'll feel the need to post a nasty one), I've just realised the one thing I've consistently forgotten to mention.
I suppose it doesn't really seem important that anybody else know about it. And maybe it's also because religion is almost a taboo subject wrt healthcare.
But, well, after every death I encounter, I say a short prayer for the departed and for the departed's surviving family. I guess this might incite a lot of hatred from any non-Christians out there, and some may even feel affronted that I'm offering up prayers for people who may not be themselves Christian.
But, well, what harm can it possibly do them, if they don't believe in God... and if God doesn't believe in them? (which is their hypothesis)
It just seems the right thing to do. shrug.
I suppose it doesn't really seem important that anybody else know about it. And maybe it's also because religion is almost a taboo subject wrt healthcare.
But, well, after every death I encounter, I say a short prayer for the departed and for the departed's surviving family. I guess this might incite a lot of hatred from any non-Christians out there, and some may even feel affronted that I'm offering up prayers for people who may not be themselves Christian.
But, well, what harm can it possibly do them, if they don't believe in God... and if God doesn't believe in them? (which is their hypothesis)
It just seems the right thing to do. shrug.
