"Blank slate" healer

[Felon]

Is it just me, or does the healer lack the cleric's ability to spontaneously cast healing spells? Seems a little odd.

They do. I had a lot of hopes for this class, but it's seriously flawed. And it has alignment restrictions.

Healing is associated with divine magic in D&D, so some degree of spirituality is going to be inherent.

 

[TheGogmagog]

You could always just use the rules for having an godless priest. After all, what god you worship is largely relevant to role-playing anyway. Just choose 2 domains, and say they represent your character's specialization. Instead of praying in the morning, he meditates for an hour to center himself.

A ditto of what noeuphoria said. By RAW you don't have to chose a deity. It's in the Cleric section (or maybe religion). Most DM's that I have seen disallow it anyway. Just picture greek mythology or 90% of ancient religions. It's not like modern religions, which insist on one true and all others false. In D&D there is no argument whether other gods exist. So when you want a good crop pray to the fertility and rain gods, a happy marriage pray to the gods of luck and love, curse and reign firey death on your foes well you get the point.
Personally I think half of a campaing world's clerics would be non denominational. In a world with so many god's who make themselves known, I wouldn't want to establish myself as an enemy of any of them.