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Hospital removes crosses from chapel
news.com.au ^ | 8th April 2009

Posted on 04/08/2009 1:32:25 AM PDT by naturalman1975

CRUCIFIXES, Bibles and all other Christian symbols have been banned from a hospital's chapel when it is not being used for a church service. The Mosman Daily has learnt that Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney has bes been ordered to remove Christian content by New South Wales bureaucrats to avoid offending Muslims, Hindus or other non-Christian believers who may want to pray in the chapel.

Hospital staff say that while the chapel was built for Christians, they now want the chapel to be completely non-denominational.

An inspection of the chapel last week by the Daily found no trace of a crucifix or any other religious symbol inside the chapel.

The Daily has been told that church leaders must bring their own symbols to use in a service.

The chapel building also contains a separate Muslim prayer room.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: antichristian; australia; chapel; christianity; creepingsharia; creepingshariah; cross; crushislam; dhimmis; hospital; islam; jihad; muslim; muslimprayerroom; muslims; nochristiansymbols; purge; sydney; trop
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So - non-denominational to the extent you can't have any religious symbols... but you can still have a Moslem prayer room.
1 posted on 04/08/2009 1:32:26 AM PDT by naturalman1975
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To: naturalman1975

Too much trouble to roll out the rug then roll it back up when done?


2 posted on 04/08/2009 1:33:42 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Beat a better path, and the world will build a mousetrap at your door.)
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To: naturalman1975

How do you spell Christianity?

S U R R E N D E R

I’m getting more than a little tired of reading reports similar to this. It’s time for some push-back.

This is a Christian nation. End of story.


3 posted on 04/08/2009 1:37:59 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (El Pres__dente, es un cula grande!)
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To: naturalman1975

BTW, I realize this story isn’t about a situation in the U.S., but the same types of things are taking place here.


4 posted on 04/08/2009 1:38:51 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (El Pres__dente, es un cula grande!)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Since there is a muslim prayer room, why do they have the need to enter the chapel? One room ain't enough for them?

Christians should demand that the rugs or whatever they have in that room be removed when it is not is use.

5 posted on 04/08/2009 1:40:01 AM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: DoughtyOne

This is an Aussie problem, mate


6 posted on 04/08/2009 1:41:49 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Beat a better path, and the world will build a mousetrap at your door.)
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To: naturalman1975

I for one dont believe this article.


7 posted on 04/08/2009 2:01:51 AM PDT by Global2010 (Catholics Come HomeAddress:http://www.catholicscomehome.org/about-us.phtml)
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Seems like the only safe church is gunna be a home church soon enough!

Mel


8 posted on 04/08/2009 2:27:15 AM PDT by melsec (A Proud Aussie)
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Why should anyone demand?

If it is their room..

If it is a Loan space then surely the policy will cover the rules.

Gee I hope if my Rosary beads ever spill on chance you wont demand I bend and pick each one up..I may need your help.


9 posted on 04/08/2009 2:29:34 AM PDT by Global2010 (Catholics Come HomeAddress:http://www.catholicscomehome.org/about-us.phtml)
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To: naturalman1975

Hmmm-There is no reason Christians shouldn’t go into the muzzie prayer room and recite Christian prayers since Christians are to pray constantly.


10 posted on 04/08/2009 2:40:49 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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Since there is a muslim prayer room, why do they have the need to enter the chapel?

Because they want to defile it. Think of the Church of the Nativity.

11 posted on 04/08/2009 2:40:57 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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ha ha ha I hope you have tons of rosary beads and leave some behind for someone who doesn't happen to have theirs with them! And if your rosary breaks, I'll be more than glad to help you! :-)

There are two rooms. My point was, since the muslims have their own separate room, then what right do they have to demand Christians to remove crosses that are in a different room?
It's a two way street.

I find it strange that other religions have a hard time sharing space with Christians in a hospital.

12 posted on 04/08/2009 2:51:00 AM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: 1_Rain_Drop

We shall over come.


13 posted on 04/08/2009 2:59:34 AM PDT by Global2010 (Catholics Come HomeAddress:http://www.catholicscomehome.org/about-us.phtml)
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To: naturalman1975

Someone needs to put some of those little “Chick Publications” books in the ROP prayer room and stand back to watch the fun!!

Allah had No Son: http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0042/0042_01.asp


14 posted on 04/08/2009 3:10:48 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (In honor of my late father-Gysgt/Comm. Chief, USMC WWII, Korea 1925-2002)
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To: naturalman1975

Learnt???


15 posted on 04/08/2009 3:31:39 AM PDT by anoldafvet
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Yeah, my thoughts exactly. I want the Muslim prayer room used for chess tournaments when they’re not using it.....
no, wait, one of the chess pieces has a cross on it....and then there’s the bishop......ooooohhh, this is bad.
-————seriously, we’re still in the first wave of this, and it’s too bad no one can see that it MUST BE ADDRESSED NOW, and not capitulated to....another form of the crushing debt we’ll be leaving children and grandchildren is how to deal with what will inevitably be a growing and increasingly aggressive Muslim presence. Including the President himself. So I don’t think we’ll be dealing with it at all. And I did see that this was Australia.


16 posted on 04/08/2009 3:38:43 AM PDT by supremedoctrine ("Time is the school in which we learn that time is the fire in which we burn"--Delmore Schwartz)
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To: naturalman1975
When I was growing up, I went to a Jewish Day school, and we had prayers every morning, in addition to a half day of religious teaching. Over the years the school outgrew the small building we were in, and we rented space in the Church across the street. There was never any question about where we were. It was a church, and there were all sorts of religious symbols all over the place, in every classroom. It never caused us any sort of harm, and it never would have occurred to anyone to request that they hide their religious symbols. We were guests in their church, and we were respectful of the fact.

The only reason that people of one belief must hide and displace the symbols of another religion is because deep down they KNOW that their religion is false, and they have a deeply held belief of inadequacy and hopelessness. Which explains the muslim belief of domination.

Mark

17 posted on 04/08/2009 3:55:34 AM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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The chapel building also contains a separate Muslim prayer room.

What if I wanted to use that room, will the muslim symbols removed? Besides, why do the muslims always get special treatment?

18 posted on 04/08/2009 4:05:39 AM PDT by rawhide
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To: 1_Rain_Drop
I find it strange that other religions have a hard time sharing space with Christians in a hospital.

Islam has a hard time sharing anything with anyone anywhere.

Then again, one could debate whether Islam is really a religion, or just a murderous death cult.

19 posted on 04/08/2009 4:11:27 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: naturalman1975

not a good sign when an ally country capitulates to the enemy


20 posted on 04/08/2009 4:47:13 AM PDT by SF_Redux
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