About RNSH Chapel
April 8th 2009 22:41
About RNSH Chapel
I just heard the radio news at 8 AM announce that Christian religious symbols like crucifixes and Bibles would be removed from the Interdenominational CHAPEL at RNSH - thats Royal North Shore Hospital at St. Leonards Sydney Australia on the Lower North side of the harbour. Some one apparently believes non Christians are going to walk into the Christian (clearly indicated as such) chapel and be offended by Christian symbols.
Such an action might be understandable if the cross involved had one of those peculiarly gruesome Baroque / Rocco Tortured Christ images but the last time I was there and to my knowledge like most interdenominational chapels in hospitals the Christian symbols are very "generic" , a plain cross and little else, and would not offend most sensible Muslims Jews or Buddhists?
This chapel was built and consecrated as a CHRISTIAN chapel BEFORE building GENERIC Chapels that are multifaith become a standard practise and I believe I remember reading that theere is a prayer/ meditation room available elsewhere in the hospital for the more "sensitive" souls?
Can anyone confirm this?
A quote from my copy of the Oxford dictionary, the 5th edition of 1970.
Chapel, n. Place of Christian worship other than a parish church or cathedral, especially one attached to private house or institution; oratory in a larger building ...
Yes we should cater to the needs of non Christians in LARGE PUBLIC COMMUNITY hospitals BUT NOT by removing the Christian symbols from a building specifically built as a Christian chapel.
That's just plain silly!
I just heard the radio news at 8 AM announce that Christian religious symbols like crucifixes and Bibles would be removed from the Interdenominational CHAPEL at RNSH - thats Royal North Shore Hospital at St. Leonards Sydney Australia on the Lower North side of the harbour. Some one apparently believes non Christians are going to walk into the Christian (clearly indicated as such) chapel and be offended by Christian symbols.
Such an action might be understandable if the cross involved had one of those peculiarly gruesome Baroque / Rocco Tortured Christ images but the last time I was there and to my knowledge like most interdenominational chapels in hospitals the Christian symbols are very "generic" , a plain cross and little else, and would not offend most sensible Muslims Jews or Buddhists?
This chapel was built and consecrated as a CHRISTIAN chapel BEFORE building GENERIC Chapels that are multifaith become a standard practise and I believe I remember reading that theere is a prayer/ meditation room available elsewhere in the hospital for the more "sensitive" souls?
Can anyone confirm this?
A quote from my copy of the Oxford dictionary, the 5th edition of 1970.
Chapel, n. Place of Christian worship other than a parish church or cathedral, especially one attached to private house or institution; oratory in a larger building ...
Yes we should cater to the needs of non Christians in LARGE PUBLIC COMMUNITY hospitals BUT NOT by removing the Christian symbols from a building specifically built as a Christian chapel.
That's just plain silly!
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