He is nice enough but way too set in his ways, but I am working on him.

None what so ever or I would not have told him about being first generation agnostic.

Hospitals need chaplains. Some people might argue about the rights of various faiths, and confronting the brutality of life, but no body (including armed security) can get a hysterical family out of the hallway and into a side room, and talk some sense into em, like a chaplain.

@Burner

Good point.

I work for essential services and they think they may come in handy and sometimes they do. They are pretty harmless.

@Burner oh look, an actual use for them. That's something you don't find every day.

@Jolanta but would a trained counceler be better at the job than they are?

@1of5 "trained counslor" is pretty much what these chaplain s are, but with a monotheistic bent instead of secular. That doesn't make them inherently less valuable. In my eyes. I don't know how hospitals would react go a request for less churchy type counseling, like "spiritual but not relgious" or "secular ethicist", but they generally have a long roster of rabbis, imams, Unitarians, Catholics... if you don't want the generic non denominational xtian.

@Burner yes, grief counselors without actual, formal training, and a penchant for metaphysics. No thanks.

@1of5 I agree, but having them available and on the payroll is a business decision. We both know that throwing money at people who supposedly "know things", even with no tangible evidence, is a human trait.

@1of5 We have those too.