Angels in Norway and Demons in America

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by Henning André Søgaard for HuffPost:
Angels in Norway and Demons in America
Posted August 23, 2007 | 10:34 PM (EST)


Norway's Princess Märtha Louise is talking to angels. 54 % of American physicians want their patients to do the same.

Märtha Louise is the daughter of King Harald V and Queen Sonja, and the older sister of Crown Prince Haakon. In a recent interview, she explained how she learned to communicate with horses and talk to angels.

"Some feel the angels, others see them. Everyone experiences them from their own standpoint. For me, they are beings of light, like a feeling of a powerful presence, a strong sense of love," she said.

To spread the news, she recently opened an institute in Oslo, offering courses to help people to get in touch with "the angels and the divine Universe". According to her website , these insights could be yours if you enroll for a fee of US$2200 per semester. The classes, which started last week, are already sold out.

"I am very happy that I don't live a few hundred years ago, because then I would have been burned at the stake a long time ago," the Princess stated.

The Norwegian Princess doesn't live a hundred years ago, and she is not the only one invoking her title to promote personal beliefs. According to a recent American survey on Physicians' Observations and Interpretations of the Influence of Religion and Spirituality on Health, 54 % of American doctors indicate that they believe God or a higher supernatural force influences the condition of their patients.

Moreover, 14 % of the same physicians reported that their personal religious beliefs justify withholding from their patients information about the existence of perfectly legal procedures, inter alia abortion in the case of failed contraception.

If theses ideas translate into their practices, more than 14 % patients or more than 40 million people in this country may be "cared for" by physicians who do not believe they are obliged to inform their patients of available treatments they consider objectionable, including vaccines (such as those for hepatatis, polio and rabies) derived from aborted fetal tissue. .....(more)

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