- Aug 14, 2019
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Australia was founded by the scum of British society. It is amazing that there has been so much progress in so little time. The early "settlers" had little choice, or do you not know about transportation? There was not much Christian about the convicts.Australia is an historically Christian country, with common Christian cultural assumptions, so that really doesn't help your case. In countries such as the US or Australia, Christianity has a continuing significant monopoly on the religious imagination of the mainstream of society, outside of the counter-culture.
Furthermore, the notion of individual choice and human freedom you are working with is in itself a legacy of Christian theology/philosophy. In other cultures, it's self-evident that people believe what they are culturally conditioned to believe. And a sales pitch (the "Roman Road" "moment of decision" or what have you of Anglo-American evangelicalism) alone isn't going to undo that, which is why Christianity has generally spread through violence, coercion, or unethical inducements (such as offers of food, medicine, even weaponry or military aid, and so on).
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