Every year on the 26th of January, our wonderful nation observes Australia Day. However, there has been a growing swell of younger people agitating to move the day to some other day of year, citing their argument that the 26th of Jan represents a dark day in Australian history, not a bright one.
To those who are not aware for one reason or another, this is because on the 26th of Jan, 1788, the First Fleet (11 British ships that brought the English convicts and the new colonists to Australia) arrived in Sydney Cove in New South Wales. Many see this day as the start of a history of violence, bloodshed, theft, rape and land acquisition. Others see this day simply as the birth of the modern nation of Australia, with both its indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples meeting for the first time.
Another, more specific reason that some Australians disown 26th Jan and feel no pride on Australia Day is the blight upon our history known as the Stolen Generation. In short, this phrase represents a set of policies and programs implemented between 1910 and the 1970s which ostensibly sought to uplift the lives of the Indigenous Australians by assimilating their children into the British/European culture and Christian faith, a mission that involved removing these children from their parents and communities, giving them new names and clothes, and essentially re-educating them.
Needless to say, this was a horrible program/set of policies, and it does bring shame to the national history and identity of modern Australia. Before moving on, it is appropriate to mention that when Christians bring the gospel to all the nations, they should be bringing the gospel to people of different ethnicities, not taking the people from different ethnic groups and attempting to change their ethnicity and culture and then add Christianity to that new identity. It is totally proper to introduce all the nations to Christ, to beckon and adjure sinners to come to Christ, but this should create a uniquely Indigenous expression of biblical Christianity, not a rip-off of the imported British culture associated with their expression of the faith. Altogether, the stolen generation was a terrible thing, and we are right to rue its memory.
However, in our day, there is an altogether different generation having their identities stolen from them.
Kids who are encouraged and groomed to ‘transition to the opposite sex’ (which is not ultimately possible, though many of the visible expressions are imitated, and so these young people effectively become eunuchs, and plunged into lifelong dependence on the healthcare system) are having their God-given bodies and healthy sexual organs defiled and destroyed, not only rendering their generation unable to experience the normative and God-glorifying calling of parenthood, but also worryingly compromising the potential of future generations to keep the birth rate in Australia above replacement. The trend of plunging birth rates across first-world nations is a worrying one, but it is little more than an expression of the culture of death, a comprehensive rejection of Christ that pervades every part of culture like rot.
We recognise how much of a travesty it was simply to change the clothing, home and name of an Indigenous child in the 20th century. How much more should we see the utter injustice and crying shame it is that our politicians, media behemoths, medical establishment and social media influencers are all banding together to not only change the appearance and name of a generation of children, but to encourage vulnerable and often confused and hurting children to seek to destroy their bodies and totally remove any chance of them experiencing natural sexual pleasure and natural family? If this analogy causes you to bristle, it must be that we are still too close to the issue to see it clearly.
This author is convinced that in somewhere between five to fifteen years, we will see the full ramifications of this insane time in our history. We will see a generation of young men and husbands who cannot become fathers. We will see untold numbers of young women who longer have a womb, or breasts to nurse a child. We will see countless young people who live in constant pain and discomfort as a result of botched surgeries, complications and infections. What’s more, many of these young people may either be still stuck in a delusion that says they are neither male nor female. Then again, some of those same young people may be walking the un-envious path of attempting to reverse those surgeries and procedures, in a last ditch attempt to return to their this is all still fresh, and the voices of the detransitioned youth are not yet as numerous or loud as they will come to be. It will be a day of reckoning. Dear reader, cultivate only charitable love for the confused child, and direct your fury towards the irresponsible adults who are performing these actions, and getting filthy rich from doing so.
This generation will never be able to erase from their minds the knowledge that untold numbers of possible future descendants have been permanently erased from the potential future. Not only two or three generations have been stolen, as with the 20th century in Australia. Generations without number will now never exist. Many of these preyed upon youngsters, if they survive medical complications and live to their forties and fifties, will live ever with the phantom of the children and grandchildren they will never father or bear.
Christians, we must love our neighbours. If you have the opportunity to show the restorative love of Christ to an individual whose family has been affected by the Stolen Generation or by the current sexual suicide, proclaim and broadcast that love clearly and without reserve. Let them see the abundant life that is to be found lavishly in Christ. Let them see the balm in his word that soothes and mends even the most entrenched historical woe. Let them see that what can be stolen can’t be kept anyway, and what cannot be stolen is a joy on earth and an inheritance laid up for them in heaven if they would turn to Christ in faith as their Restorer and Lord.
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