We hear now of Australia’s move to remove the use of AD and BC to denote the passage of time in their school textbooks. Instead, they will use the communistic “Before Common Era” and “Common Era”.
We can well see what the reason for this is. It is not form impartiality’s sake, nor is it for simplification. It is a desire on the part of secularists to remove Christ from our history, and have him as a religious curiosity rather than an established figure in the history of our people.
These are the same people who won’t allow Bibles in libraries, who mock the use of daily prayers in schools, who call for Christian iconography to be scratched out from public buildings, like the Soviets who blew up churches, but on a smaller, creeping scale.
Their plan is to completely sever us from our Christian past, because a nation with no identity is far easier to replace with some ruinous, cosmopolitan socialism. It is common for Marxist critical schools to divide the world up into eras according to their own perverted view of history, a method which can be used to make some events of great spiritual importance, such as the birth of Christ, appear to be a mere footnote in history, while at the same time increasing the importance of their own squalid and generic human milestones.
By sheer coincidence, I am currently reading a pseudo-historical novel by HG Wells, and he divides the history of the world into “eras” of varying and arbitrary lengths, with the overall effect that it is hard to work out exactly which century is being referred to.
I suspect such a system would have a similarly confusing effect on Australia’s schoolchildren.
Of course, it’s not just the leftist revisionists who stand to gain from wiping clean the slate of Christianity. The long march of secularism through the bastion of Christianity is targeted solely at us, for there never appears to be any condemnation of other religions. The alien festivals of Eid and Divali are always celebrated by the multiculturalists as markers and milestones in history, even as the very name of Jesus Christ is forbidden to be spoken, lest it “offend” someone.
And it is expected of us that we change the name of 1400 years of our calendar system because it might offend or confuse people from different backgrounds. We ought to ask why such a culture that is alien to these Muslim and Hindu and Jewish foreigners should be expected to absorb them at such a difficult cost.
But it’s not our culture they want, but our resources, the fruits of our labour and our society. They are more than happy to support the banner of the secularists, as it makes our nations easier for them to invade and conquer, when there is no cultural resistance to outsiders.
And of course, once they are here, the same “cultural sensitivity” would not be expected of them. They would be expected to be “proud” of their heritage, purely because it has usurped our own Christian heritage.
Every Christian, whether in Australia or any other nation on Earth, should oppose these stabs against our faith, for they are stabs against us as well. They may not seem very important on their own, but in the long run, it will amount to the prohibition on all Christianity.
