Ken Davey wrote:

> The great majority of hospitals were not started by religious people.
> They sprang out of the desire by 'caring' people to help their fellow man.
> Religion was NOT the reason.
> If what you said was really the case history would be replete with horror
> stories of refusal to admit without evidence of religious affiliation. Now
> if you want to talk about racial descrimination this is a good place to
> start.

If you can twist reality around enough I suppose it could be said that a lot
of hospitals were founded by the church. After all, the church had an
incredible amount of influence in days gone by, and few projects were carried
out without its consent. So if we interpret the approval to well meaning
groups to build hospitals we can say that the church was responsible for them
being established.