TERRY Sanderson, National Secular Society President, has criticised a call by doctors to be allowed to discuss spiritual issues with patients as well as offer to pray for them. Such interference, says Sanderson: Can all too quickly get out of hand and we will have staff preaching on the wards. He was reacting to news [...]
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HOSPITALS could be reduced to mere workshops where you get your biological parts fixed if the National Secular Society were to run the NHS. Those are the words of a Catholic priest, father Paul Mason, who, on the BBC Today Programme this morning, opposed a suggestion by the NSS that hospital chaplains should be funded [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
