It is said that there are four primary motivations in life – to live, to love, to learn, and to leave a legacy. This is not theology, but philosophy, and it goes on to associate living with food and thus, the stomach; loving with the heart, learning with the mind and leaving a legacy with the spirit. If that is the case, the 2004 Federal election provides an opportunity to consider the spiritual condition of the nation by examining the legacy that is being left to future generations.
Economically, Australia is living on borrowed time.
Nationally, we owe almost $400 billion to foreign lenders, repayment of which is likely to impose severe economic and political costs on our children, and our children’s children. This has occurred despite the fire sale that successive governments – both Federal and State, Labor and Coalition – have conducted of the nation’s assets. The careful accumulation of the national infrastructure by previous generations of statesman-like politicians, has been frittered away by the latter day predators that populate our Parliaments.
Telstra, Qantas, the Commonwealth Bank, airports, water, power generation and distribution, public transport, public hospitals, gaols and other valuable public infrastructure have all fallen under the auctioneer’s hammer. Yet no national benefit has derived from this squandering of the nation’s assets. On the contrary, service industries, because of their essential nature to the community, and therefore traditionally recognised as being the exclusive responsibility of government, have now fallen into the hands of corporate crooks whose only motivation is profit. And where profit is concerned, there is no such thing as enough. Yet despite the vast cash inflow to governments resulting from these wasteful selloffs national debt continues to climb. This irrational behaviour goes by the name of economic rationalism and is the linchpin of globalism.
Globalism is the name given to that doctrine that promotes starvation wages, pollution, toxic waste, manipulative marketing aimed at the young and vulnerable, billions wasted on packaging and advertising, the horrors inflicted on farm and laboratory animals, ruthless retrenchments, the destruction of families and communities, the desecration of forests, oceans and ecosystems and the wholesale bribery of governments. Indeed, Professor Geoffrey Q. de Walker in his excellent 1987 book The People’s Law, said that the corruption and blackmail of entire political parties was common.
Socially, Australia has become a basket case. Multiculturalism has eroded any sense of national will or purpose, opening up the prospect of the balkanisation of Australia into ethnic enclaves and warring tribes. Indeed, that is already taking place in our major cities. Funding by foreign governments of Muslim schools in Australia that promote religious extremism is commonplace. With an average birth rate four times that of Australian born women, and given that each Muslim man is permitted to have four wives, it is only a matter of time before Australia becomes part of the Muslim world.
At the same time, the indoctrination of our young girls with the “feminist” ethic, if it can be called that, means that most educated Australian women are opting for careers, rather than seeing their future in motherhood and homemaking. When set alongside the fact that almost 30 per cent of 24 to 45 year old men do not have full-time work, owing to the economic destruction by governments and unions of our manufacturing and agricultural sectors, the effect on marriage and fertility rates is such as to make the traditional Australian family an endangered species.
We could go on, but suffice to say that the unholy humanist trinity of feminism, multiculturalism and globalism has brought about social disaster to Australia and utterly destroyed our national identity and sovereignty. This is the legacy that our generation will hand on to those following us.
All this is the proud achievement of those who are now seeking your votes in the forthcoming election – political parties. That it has happened in direct opposition to the national interest and the wishes of the people just underscores the fact that candidates of political parties – any political parties – do not represent their constituents, as they are morally and constitutionally obliged to do, but their Party.
Around Australia, Churches are praying for revival. But it is repentance that leads to revival and repentance is something that seems to be missing in the spiritual life of the Church today. Trampled down under the feet of men, obsessed with the trivia of religious activity, the Church is a pathetic parody of the roaring lion that it was meant to be. The Western Church has devolved into a corporate system of pseudo-spiritual religions, in which Christ and His teachings are like window displays, just used to get you inside the door, but bearing little resemblance to what you are likely to find once you are inside. These organisations model themselves on the world, having goals such as continuity, growth, market share and brand recognition. Christ and His Word are completely peripheral to their existence.
In Australia, nothing could better illustrate this than the unfolding shame of serial sexual abuse of children in the care of the Church by Church officials – they can’t be called ministers. There seems to have been no desire on the part of Church leaders to purge this evil from their midst, giving priority instead to getting it out of sight with a minimum of fuss. Thus, they reasoned, will the “good name” of the Church be preserved.
Jesus, however, looked at it differently; “……but whoever should sin (Greek: skandalise) against the faith of a single one of these little ones it is better for him that a donkey’s millstone be hung around his neck and he be drowned in the depths of the sea.” This sort of thinking still seems to be foreign to the “Christian” Churches that perpetrated such horrors on defenceless children in their care.
So, during election season 2004, it is worth remembering that organisations are not the answer to this country’s ills, but individuals. It is misplaced trust in organisations such as Churches and political parties that have brought the country to its present condition.
For that reason, we recommend that you find a candidate who will undertake to represent the views of electors. Such a condition automatically excludes candidates representing a political party, including those that claim to be Christian political parties. There is no such thing, of course. The Spirit of God does not inhabit parties or organisations, but individuals. And despite the Federal Parliamentary Christian Fellowship boasting more than sixty members, they all fail in their obligation to represent you, the elector, being enslaved instead to the party they represent, and to which they owe their selection as candidates, and potential preferment to the front bench.
Since we are legally bound to vote, we must vote. But voting means turning up at the polling booth and having your name marked off on the electoral roles. What you do with the ballot paper is your business. The Australian Electoral Commission says that you must number every square, and so you should. Several years ago, a Melbourne man was gaoled for several months for recommending to people to place the number “1” in the square of the candidate that they supported and the number “2” in every other square. This, he said, overcomes the problem of the preferential voting system that forces voters to record a vote for those candidates that they do not support. Six years ago, for example, W.A. homosexual Senator Brian Greig got over the line on the preferences of the Christian Democratic Party.
The preferential voting system, which has been a curse to Australia, underpins the two-party political system. This probably explains the harsh treatment handed out to the man who not only worked out a way around it, but told people about it.
The only advice we can give you is to think before you vote.
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