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Our great Judeo-Christian tradition : Comments
By Irfan Yusuf, published 30/5/2007Peter Costello seems to believe that the Judeo-Christian tradition exclusively forms the basis of 'Australian values'.
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Yet out in the bush in the 1920s and thirties we all seemed to get on, Jewish woolbuyers and Afghan traders mixing with the settlers, from a young kid's point of view no sense of hatred among us at all.
Though one could say that never a Jew or an Afghan was ever allowed through the front door, business was always discussed outside.
The superiority was thus there, as well as shown from not only British but also from German family names like Liebe, Schultz and Carlhausen, similar to in the US, were Teutonic names were so prominent in both World Wars, cousins fighting cousins as the result of so many German families leaving their home countries to start a new life.
Thus we have the stories of how the Teutonic barbarians finally took over Rome, after Roman leaders over hundreds of years gradually lost or cut loose the beginnings of a democracy inherited from the Greeks, eventually to return from a lazy sojourn to find a Germanic sitting on the Roman throne.
In fact, it has been said that it has been the rise of Teutonic or Germanic superiority since the Islamics were sent on the run apart from the Ottomans, that have caused the Arabs as some say to be treated like low life.
The Jews also were treated similarly to the Arabs, but their ability to have a natural sense of reason besides deep faith, has produced some of our greatest thinkers, which helped merge the spirit of capitalism into our Protestant Ethic.
But while we give praise, we also should be allowed to feel a certain amount of contempt for both us Protestants and Jews letting our leaders assume mantles of global elitism as if some sort of almighty God would want it that way.
The facts are, from a fair-minded point of view it does not look good.