The
child-stealers
Tens of thousands of Americans
were sterilized en masse, thus stealing from them the children they would
never see - because of deliberate evolutionary practices. In Australia there
is now an even bigger issue involving child-stealing. Government policy, continued
till the 1970s, caused some 100,000 children of Australia's aboriginal people
to be taken from their parents into foster homes or institutions, by force
if necessary.
Genesis teaches us that
the family is a basic created unit – breaking the bond between parent
and child is therefore fundamentally wrong. While there are always instances
in a fallen world in which removing children from parents is the lesser of
two wrongs, this is the exception, not the rule.
Most of these children
suffered the effects of this separation for life, although many were well
looked after. For too many others, there was physical and sexual abuse. Very
few aboriginal families have not been affected in some way.
As Australia wrestles
with the implications of the 'stolen generation', debates about guilt and
compensation rage, with the matter rapidly becoming a political football.
Yet one fact, previously documented by the media, has become unmentionable.
Namely, that the prime motivator behind this grand-scale policy was evolutionary
belief.
Darwin believed that various
races, having evolved apart, were at different evolutionary 'stages'; the
Australian Aborigines were living missing links'. Northern hemisphere museums,
keen to obtain specimens for evolutionary displays, were not really fussy
whether these came from grave-robbing or calculated murder. Men, women and
children, who were classified by the Australian National Museum as 'Australian
animals', were hunted down for the cause of evolutionary 'science'.1
A half-caste child was
automatically 'more evolved' than its full-blood parent. Therefore, it was
seen as virtuous to remove the child from its 'less-human' parent.2
Of course, such children were still regarded as less evolved by most whites.
The evolutionary presumption
that Aboriginal mothers, being less human, were less capable of real feelings,
comes through in reports of the time, such as the official who wrote: 'I
would not hesitate for one moment to separate a half-caste from an Aboriginal
mother, no matter how frantic her momentary grief.'3
Some godly Christians,
fully aware of Biblical history, and motivated by their belief that all were
created in the image of God, were opposed to the government's evolutionary
policies. Many opened their homes to protect such children from being institutionalised
and exploited by the ungodly, as well as protecting some from the occasional
tribal practice of infanticide of half-castes. These are now receiving unjust
criticism for their role.
Some officials saw removal
as a way to ensure that aboriginal children receive a proper education. But
while permission was always sought from the parents prior to removal of full-blood
children, for half-castes it was a different matter. At first, courts had
to rule there was parental neglect (not difficult when the criteria included
sleeping in the open, a standard tribal practice), but officials soon lobbied
for (and obtained) the power to remove all half-castes as 'neglected' by definition.
Many churches and church
agencies were, sometimes enthusiastically, involved; a high court judge has
openly apologised for his role at the time (while a leading official in a
mainstream denomination). Then, as now, Christian thinking had been contaminated
by the 'science' of the day.
If the Bible had been
seen as the history book of the universe, it would have been obvious that
all people, being descendants of Noah's family only a few thousand years ago,
are closely related. Thus, the 'scientific' beliefs about Aborigines had to
be wrong, period. (Biologists now agree that the genetic differences between
the so-called 'races' are utterly trivial – see The
Fallacy of Racism).
For there to be a resurgence
of real blessing in our nations, God's people need to turn, en masse, from
their idolatrous compromise with the tenets of pagan evolutionism. Spreading
creation truth widely through our circles, perhaps with the help of this publication,
is something we can all do.
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