During my year as a hospital chaplain at a “Christian” hospital, I was
reminded of something every day and every night. My fellow Protestant Chaplain
Coworkers, and I, were not encouraged to talk about Jesus or God in our daily
20 to 40 room visits. If a woman was struggling over whether or not to have an
abortion, we were told by our department NOT to tell them the Christian
position, we were simply supposed to be there as an emotional support, NOT as a
religious or spiritual messenger. If a family asked for the Christian teaching
on removal of nutrition and hydration, why were we told not to give Christian
teaching, but it was ok to give the hospice and palliative care teaching on not
wasting unnecessary money on a person in their last few years of life.
I frequently asked the department heads: “What makes a chaplain
different from an atheistic hostess whose job it is to give warm fuzzy
feelings?” Never got a good answer. The 8 Protestant chaplains I worked with,
and I, were told to NEVER push Christianity on anyone, this was called
“inflicting ministry.” We were basically supposed to be embarrassed of Jesus
and His gospel. If there was a Jew, or Jehova, or Muslim, or a Hari Krishna
believer, we were encouraged to go into deep conversation with them about their
spiritual and religious beliefs. It was cool to talk religion in the chaplain
department when it was the religion of Mohammad or Hari Krishnas, but it was
not cool to get deep into Jesus or His gospel. So it is ok to get deep and
religious with Moslems, Jews, Jehovas and Hari Krishnas, but it is NOT ok to go
deep into religion or God with Protestants and Catholics????
Why is it ok for Miley Cyrus to dress half naked and do sexually
explicit things on international T.V., and she gets props for it, but when an
outdoorsman talks about his Christian belief that homosexual marriage is wrong,
he is guilty of a politically incorrect hate crime? There are heroic people who
struggle with homosexuality, we are not referring to them, we are referring to
those who push for legitimizing “alternative lifestyles.”
Why does the preferred political party of the majority of Protestants
and Catholics in America embrace a pro abortion and pro alternative lifestyles
platform, officially, because they believe it is wrong to violate a person’s
free will, but then this same political party violates the free will of all
American tax payers by FORCING them to pay for health insurance that pays for
abortions and sex changes? Why is it holy for THEIR consciences not to be
violated, but it is not holy for the rest of America’s consciences not to be
violated?
If these hypocricies and stupidities are not made right in this life,
they will be made right in the next life.
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