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Faith In Its Purest Form.
I read this in The Sun today.....
Nick Wallis suffers from Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and is confined from a wheelchair. He's 22 and, after failing to meet anyone special at University, deciding he didnt want to die without experiencing sex. So he approached staff at the Christian Foundation Hospice where he spends much of his time and asked them to book him a prostitute. Which after much consultation, they duly did. Sister Frances, founder of the Oxfordshire-based hospice says: "Yes, I am a nun. But first and foremost I'm a human being. My God is one of suprise. Jesus never ceased to amaze people's expectations - especially the religious - and I challenge anyone who has not walked in his shoes, who has not lived with what he does, to judge him" And there you have it. Religious faith in its purest form, as it was always meant to be, practised by someone fundamentally good, flexible to the point of view of others, and non judgmental. It hammers home how many religions in modern Britain have now been hijacked by those who use its name to bully others, judge harshly those who don't comply to their thinking, and at worst, actually inflict harm or death. |
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Nice story lolly.........but under the circumstances, I think that the majority (not all) of religious leaders of whatever faith would probably do the same. I agree that dictates from the hierarchy in most religions are quite rigid.......but further down the line, priests, vicars, nuns etc have a certain amount of choice as to how they interpret those rules.
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Of course they do i'm not doubting that for a second, this is just an example of one such person who did.
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There is another thread on this story as well.
http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/s...&highlight=nun |
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it has been featured in Helen house which is a programme I have been taping on BBC2 tues eve's 10pm and it was dealt with care, consideration and foremost with the lad making all the decisions himself. the story will be continued next week
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if the nun had any decency she woulda put the money towards charity and done him herself and put it down to gods work ;)
nuns uniform is a bonus and he could die knowing that not many people can say they have done a nun before they die :D |
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[quote=chav1;377780]if the nun had any decency she woulda put the money towards charity and done him herself
iagree chav, if the nun thought helping him in this way was such a noble act she should have volunteered for the job herself. i think it disgusting that sex for sale has been endorsed by aso called religious person. |
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Not very Christian. Jesus befriended the fallen woman. He even washed the feet of Mary Magdalene. I think he might have been a little more charitable than you. |
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I find it rather moving that he said it was not emotionally fulfilling and that he would much rather find a girlfriend. Sadly that isn't something anyone else can assist with is it? :( |
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As a Christian concept, about Jesus befriending the outcasts, the Bible is fairly clear though. |
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Hmm but I don't think it's meant to imply that he condoned prostitution. To the woman who'd committed adultery, although he forgave her sins, didn't he say "sin no more"?
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I watched the program on TV last night. It was very moving, especially the family who had lost thier son and now seeing their daughter go through the same thing.
The young man who had hired the prostitute was also featured and it was good to get the actual true version of events instead of the misinterpretations and misrepresentations. There was no nun involved in the situation at all. The sex worker visited him after he had made contact via ads in a magazine for disabled people. He did have help from a care worker but the bearded guy with tattoed arms didn't look much like a nun to me. In fact I didn't see a nun anywhere at all. From what was shown on TV I presume the hospice where this young man spends a lot of (but certainly not all of) his time is a Christian Hospice run by one or possibly more than one nun. It certainly isn't staffed entirely by nuns. It would seem that those in charge have an attitude of tolerance where they do not seek to impose their own standards/lifestyle/moral judgements upon others but leave everyone to make their own decisions, offering help support and advice when requested. In this case Nick Wallis had made his own mind up what he wanted and he went about getting it. Even the content of the emails which he wrote to the various sex workers was down to him - the care worker who was helping him with any physical assistance he required did actually mention that some of the things Nick wrote in his emails might have put the prostitutes off because he wasn't getting any response but the young man wanted to explain his situation to them from the start. I totally agree with allowing everyone the freedom to make their own choices. Sadly, he did say afterwards that it wasn't really what he had hoped for because there was no emotion involved. It sounds to me that what he is really looking for is a loving relationship and so sad that he may die without having experienced that. His care worker said something about it being a bad thing that disabled people's needs are not being met - but how can that need be met? It's not something you can create by law or by NHS provision or social services is it? :( Everyone needs to be loved and so very, very sad when anyone misses that. |
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willow, the nun was in one of the meetings but is dressed in normal clothes with just a crucifix round her neck.
I have found this to be a very moving programme and as you say Nick's plight was handled in a very sensitive way but also to try and help protect the hospice and it's workers. Last weeks programme showed that Nick was a very talented artist until the muscular distrophy overtook the use of his limbs and many of his excellent paintings were auctioned off to raise funds for helen & douglas house, in fact in total they raised over £100,000. I defy anyone who watched last night not to be moved by as you mentioned willow the mother who had lost her son to a disease and was now watching her daughter go through the same problems...good that it finished on a positive that she was improving and the mum had found some acceptance with her lot and was adamant that life now was about having as much fun with her daughter as possible |
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He was obviously very knowledgeable about music too when that chap with the cello came to play for him such a shame that he can no longer use his talents. The bit which really got to me was when they were trying to put that tube in for the girl and it wasn't going down and she was obviously under stress. As a mother I would hate to have to try to soothe a child of mine going through that. |
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No I don't think she spoke in the meeting, but if you continue to watch she will be on again. She actually founded the hospice and devotes all her time to it.
It was moving a few weeks ago when a woman had lost her little son and she asked if she could go to the nuns daily prayers in the adjoining church and they invited her with open arms and made sure she felt included. There are many things that I have seen in this program that is quite upsetting but I am amazed by the staff's ability to continue supporting when they so obviously get very attached to the children too |
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