Ozwitness

As we look around the world, we find that only the West has any attraction as a destination of the poor from the 3rd world. Ideally, everyone would be happy  and satisfied with their homeland, but many nations are badly governed and the bitter fruits drive many to desperately set off in search of peace, prosperity and happiness.

Interestingly, no-one heads for China, Russia or North Korea, where the people  are more likely  to want to leave, if they could!

The West though, is in decline, with all kinds of problems of its own, and only remains attractive because of its lingering historical heritage.  Why do we find such a sad situation?

The world’s greatest Empires were all ruled by Emperors or Kings, who relied on a strong foundation  of laws to provide stability.  The greatest Empire of all, the world-straddling British Empire, was built on British Common Law, which came out of the Bible – The Ten Commandments. Though imperfect, for a while it did bring stability and some peace, prosperity and happiness to benighted nations, some of which were still in the Stone Age until the British arrived.

Only when those Laws were challenged and increasingly rejected did the Empire decline. Hosea 13:6, ‘But when you had eaten and were satisfied, you became proud and forgot me.’  ‘Woe to them, because they have strayed from me! Destruction to them, because they have rebelled against me! I long to redeem them but they speak about me falsely.’ Hosea 7:13  NIV.

God allows us Free Moral Agency – the right to choose to do right or wrong. Britain chose wrong time after time until their Empire was lost.

Real peace, prosperity and happiness can only be experienced when those laws are kept. Atheist Communist nations admit to no God but Communism, and deny the right to worship and the keeping of the Sabbath, as well as the principles which lie behind  the rest of the Commandments . So Freedom and free moral agency – the right to obey God, are hard to find there, along with peace, prosperity and  true happiness.

As a result, peace, prosperity and happiness are less and less to be found in both the West, and the East, though they are still automatically available personally in our own lives, if only we will struggle to obey, with the help of Jesus Christ!

The Prime Minister, Scott Morrison has urged  Australians  not to surrender to “”identity politics””, as it reduces individuals to their  attributes and divides and fragments society. “”You are more than your gender, your sexuality, your race, your ethnicity, your religion, your language group, your age””.  ….””of themselves these are not the essence of our humanity. Instead we should view people as individuals – with agency and responsibility””. “”Throughout history we’ve seen what happens when people are defined solely by the group  they belong to, or an identity they possess. the Jewish community understands that better than any.””

He went on to say that each of us has “”human dignity”” as an individual. This is at the heart of the Judeo-Christian tradition underpinning modern Australian society and it was also foundational for freedom in our liberal democracy. “”Human dignity””. Everything  flows from that. He went on to stress that those who preach identity politics seek to sow discord in society, not unity, by inflaming angers and hatreds, and spreading lies and disinformation.

Oh how true! And on the same day we saw a blatant example of this  in the new Australian Curriculum for our schools.  This evil new document despises Australia’s Christian heritage and cancels it from the proposed new curriculum, replacing it with Indigenous history, culture and perspectives, and teaches that  British colonisation was no more than an ‘invasion’, our society  no more than a “”culturally diverse, multi-faith, secular and pluralistic society with diverse communities.””

It would have our children believe that our society has been more influenced  by the benighted, spear-throwing, oppressive customs and superstitious rituals of the ‘First Nations People’ on colonisation, than  the Western Christian  culture stemming from Israel, Greece and Rome, which so attracts people to its freedoms from nations around the world.

This history has been removed to “”declutter”” the curriculum, but many believe that it is not clutter, but vital knowledge of  our society’s  origins. The director of the Institute of Public Affairs western civilisation program, Bella d’Albrera, said, “”This is giving licence for children  to unlearn  the freedoms of our democracy and brainwash them into becoming political activists.”” (Of the left wing of course.)

Take a look at all the ‘identity’ groups and you can see the discord and hatred they have for our freedoms, which have already been diminished by their claims!