Devin, in conversation with your fellow Americans, I believe that we Aussies are in exactly the same situation as your nation is....our forebears stole land from the indigenous people too, and also with much bloodshed and subjugation.
TBH, I don’t find that something to be proud of.....especially in view of where the indigenous people find themselves today in their own lands, or in lands that they were forced to inhabit due to captivity and slavery.
The Spanish conquistadors also shed blood and forced ‘conversion’ on their conquered people at the point of a sword. You cannot for one moment see Christ in any of their activities....can you?
IMO, Australia has gone a bit overboard in its promotion of the “sorry” agenda, which should have buried the atrocities of the past whilst trying to promote the fact that all are equal citizens of the same nation. No matter what color or heritage we claim, no descendants of the conquerors should see themselves as superior and the indigenous people as inferior, yet that legacy of the past remains.
Hatred for blacks
and whites still festers under the surface, mainly because of socio-economic reasons.....the deep seated resentment remains and we can understand why. The whites treated the blacks here as inferior and many have grown up in very inferior circumstances, limiting education and training for a place in the modern world. Areas with high indigenous populations are often dangerous places to live.
Yet, we all bleed the same color.
I have to agree with
@I.O.U in some of the things he mentioned. No nation on earth with the record for bloodshed and the development of heinous weaponry that the US and her allies (including Australia) have amassed over the last century, can ever claim to be a “Christian” nation.....it seems as if Christ’s teachings fell on deaf ears if any nation who claims to be “Christian” can shed blood on that scale...and without a drop of that blood in two World Wars being shed on their own soil. (Isaiah 1:15)
When you step back and look at the world from God’s perspective, he is not fooled by the propaganda that is fed to the citizens of various nations to solicit support for their unchristian activities.
When it comes to patriotism, many countries put their own nation’s interests ahead of their Christian duty to obey the one they claim is their King. (Matthew 5:43-44)
Which is the only nation on earth that has actually dropped nuclear bombs on innocent people?
If 1 John 5:19 tells us that “the whole world lies in the power of the wicked one”...what part of the “whole world” is the devil
not controlling? If we can see through the propaganda, it will never result in us breaking God’s law to promote the interests of nations who hide what they are doing behind the scenes. Propaganda is an ancient weapon but it still feeds the populations of modern nations who have the means to present themselves as “angels of light”, when in reality they are just puppets in the hands of the god of this world. (2 Corinthians 4:3-4)
We are staring down the barrel of the greatest tribulation in the history of the world (Matthew 24:21).....so, who is prepared for what the Bible tells us is looming in this "time of the end"? Do we understand what is happening and why we need to warn others about what is going to take place?
What do you see as the future Devin? Who do you believe?