Golden Rule Poster

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This poster was very popular at the Catholic elementary and high schools I attended. It’s meant to reinforce religious indifferentism, and to imply strongly that there is salvation outside the church. You’d never see such a poster in any religious school that isn’t Catholic.
 
Ha, I thought this thread was about a poster found in the Traditional Catholicism forum who actually followed the Golden Rule when posting. Silly me.:rolleyes:
 
Apparently, it is on permanent display at the United Nations headquarters in New York.
 
Does anyone have problems with the circulation of this poster in Catholic elementary schools other than myself?
 
“What is hateful to you do not do to your neighbor. This is the whole Torah; all the rest is commentary”

I like that one!

Basically this poster seems to say that all the World religions talk about the Golden Rule, that it is a universal concept.
 
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Does anyone have problems with the circulation of this poster in Catholic elementary schools other than myself?
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Any believing Catholic should have a problem with it.

Maybe we should send “scarboro missions” a few emails reminding them that there is no salvation outside the church:

info@scarboromissions.ca

That dogma is conspicuously absent from their website. The situation of the Church in Canada is a travesty. Thank God my country is so small and irrelevant.
 
I sent an email in regards to a response I received from them enquiring about the Interfaith Movement (I was unfamiliar with it). They haven’t replied.
 
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Does anyone have problems with the circulation of this poster in Catholic elementary schools other than myself?
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It’s a nice poster but a Universalist one that is best kept in Secular settings. A Catholic school should be more specific. This poster implies that all the religions teach the same thing, which isn’t true.

There are so many specifically Catholic materials that are inspirational and don’t gloss over doctrinal differences like this. I agree with you, posting this poster in a Catholic school implies a Unitarianism instead of providing much needed Catholic Catichesis in our schools.
 
Here is an excerpt of the response I received from that email
Cardinal Arinze’s statement is not unconnected to the decision of the Ontario bishops to make the teaching of world religions compulsory in all Catholic high schools in Ontario. Recently, the Ontario Catholic bishops commissioned the publication of a world religions high school textbook for Catholic schools. A number of publishers are bidding to publish this text.
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Here is another excerpt from the same email:
You raise the question of the place of Christ in all this i.e. on the poster as well in the larger issue of Catholics dialoguing with or even associating with other faiths. Let me respond to this with a quotation from Mother Teresa, whose entire ministry was conducted in the conflict-ridden, multi-faith environment of India:
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“I’ve always said that we should help a Hindu become a better Hindu, a Muslim become a better Muslim, a Catholic become a better Catholic”
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Dauphin said:
Any believing Catholic should have a problem with it.

Maybe we should send “scarboro missions” a few emails reminding them that there is no salvation outside the church:

info@scarboromissions.ca

That dogma is conspicuously absent from their website. The situation of the Church in Canada is a travesty. Thank God my country is so small and irrelevant.
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I think that is an excellent idea. They will not respond to my emails.
 
jJohn_Michael said:
Here is an excerpt of the response I received from that email
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I was forced to take that course. By the end, I knew more about other religions than my own. I didn’t know what Transubstantiation or the hypostatic union was, but I knew all about Vishnu and Buddha and the Sikh gurus and about how to attain Nirvana.
 
Dauphin said:
Any believing Catholic should have a problem with it.

Maybe we should send “scarboro missions” a few emails reminding them that there is no salvation outside the church:

info@scarboromissions.ca

That dogma is conspicuously absent from their website. The situation of the Church in Canada is a travesty. Thank God my country is so small and irrelevant.
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I think that is an excellent idea.
 
I think I know this poster. My Contemporary Issues/Philosophy teacher has it up in her classroom, and while it’s good, it doesn’t really have a lot to say at all. The Golden Rule is good, but easily abused, and could hardly be considered ALL of Jesus’ teaching as much as just a little bit of it.

It’s too easily abused for any purpose to really be considered a ‘Golden Standard’ of any thorough philosophy. (Considering my teacher has a VERY obvious bias, and she uses it all the time to forward her positions, even though I’ve pointed out how it could be used in contradiction of the same)
 
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