Defining "Spirituality"

The central issue, it seems to me, is how care-givers -- doctors, social workers, counselors, etc., not just nurses -- are to pursue their respective professions in the context of a diverse, pluralistic society that protects and tolerates a wide spectrum of ideologies and world-views. Say what you will in terms of adverse criticism of the postmodern outlook, at the end of the day, that outlook, whatever it's shortcomings, does support and underwrite many political and cultural virtues we all, Christian and non-Christian, believer and skeptic, cherish: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, freedom of (and from) religion. How would these civic, political, and cultural virtues fare in the (at least implicitly) Christian theocracy advocated in the article? Nurses who try to administer evangelism along with patient care place themselves in the awkward position, ethically, of using their dominant position as care-givers to leverage their patients' weakness and vulnerability -- after all, they're sick or they wouldn't be patients -- for ideological advantage. Of course, no nurse worthy of the profession would hand out paperback New Testaments or evangelistic tracts with patients' meds, but the conflict I refer to can take other, subtler forms. First, do no harm. JRC