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Clinique

Dr dear Dr: Am enjoying your Dr Karl Sikora style NHS friendly responsories to our little questions of faith and custom, but was disturbed to hear that a Clinic in North London told a nursing undergrad that the Bible was racist?

A regrettable case in point of fact, since the nurse called Amy Gg was simply pursuing a nursing program and undertaking a course in medical ethics when the comment was made. She might have taken the comment a little out of context because the original remark simply pointed out that some people found the Jewish Bible offensive where it speaks of the “powers of darkness”, hence the interest of the media in the incident, but per se it was quite an innocent sociological comment rather than a substantive ideological one, so NHS off the ropes for a little while yet. In the current climate, the lecturers were simply being woke and trendy to point to a semitic sacred text. People do get offended by ancient tomes and Cambridge has been putting little trigger warnings on such old books of the old school. In a Gothic world, misunderstandings will occur. In a superficial age, sociological interpretations will triumph over innocent theological ones. It might be well nigh necessary to stop misunderstandings occurring like the one surrounding an upset nurse like Amy Gg. No offense is intended either in the Jewish Bibles since the reference does not refer to skin pigmentation but to those that deliberately and willingly serve the untermenschen of the underworld.