If you want to be a good Christian also become a good Buddhist. Set yourself on the path of enlightenment. Buddha did not say there was no god(s), he just didn't see any relevance for god(s) in mans consciousness.

Are we like the Romans?
Paul1405,
No, a lot worse !

Enjoy your evening.
Foxy,
So, you're running out of links to cut & paste but that doesn't compensate for always falling for the BS of the various bandwagons !

individual,

I'll make it simpler for you:

When all is said and done, the diverse peoples of
the Indigenous nations and the deluded white
criminals of the motherland ended up forming a
single nation, this amazing land we call Australia,
which combines all the best of its brutally cruel
origins with the finest in modern complacency and
self-deception.

The lessons that our mighty figures of history have
to teach us are massive and enduring. Should we
wish to learn how to better serve our nation, how
to leave a legacy worthy of the term, there is no
difficulty: all we need do is look to the Australians
contained in our history books, and drink in the
cool, refreshing inspiration they devoted their lives
to pouring out for us.

Have fun learning about these people - Lets give them all
the joyous cry of "Aussie! Aussie! Aussie!"

There you go!

We don't need to argue - we simply need to read.
Onya!

David,
Of course Chtist was not a Christian because then He would have had to be one of his own followers.

The only way we can get anything of what the 'woke' think is valuable out of aboriginal 'culture' is if we reject and neglect all the facts about aboriginal 'culture' and deceive ourselves into believing all the Disney-fied fantasies about that woe begotten peoples. And we can see that quite a few in this group have travelled a long way down that path already.

We can swoon over aboriginal 'art' and convince ourselves it was important and ground-breaking. But that requires that we try not to notice that it was just like all the other art that backward peoples all over the world did and is most poor quality as compared to those other civilisations. We can swoon over stick figures and poor renditions of prey while trying to not notice that its highly reminiscent of what a 5 yr old would do to their bedroom wall once they get a new set of crayons.

Indeed the only aboriginal 'art' of any real consequence which shows true uniqueness of thought and technique is the so-called Bradshaw paintings. Hilariously, the culture that created these paintings is gone, which is a telling commentary on the claims of the longest culture malarkey. Equally the likelihood that they were replaced by more recent arrivals indicates genocide long before those nasty white people arrived.

Speaking of which we have quite infantile claims that war was essentially unknown to our aboriginal heroes ("therefore missing out on much of the war, genocide and plagues that made history so much fun.") when in fact, based on historic evidence and not Disney-fied fantasies, the proportion of aboriginals killed in warfare over the millennia was probably greater than for any other 'culture' - modern, ancient or stone-age. (one such example is here http://tghstrehlow.wordpress.com/1922/10/11/wednesday-the-eleventh-day-of-october-1922/ where a party of 60 or so ambush and destroy an entire tribe killing all except the infants who instead have the limbs broken and are left to die naturally).

Yes, there is much we can learn from aboriginal 'culture'. But only if we ignore the facts and fall for the fantasy.