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Christians in Australia are accusing national education officials of “Christian cleansing” in response to pending changes in school books that would remove references to the birth of Jesus Christ.
The government would replace the terms BC, Before Christ, and AD, Anno Domini, with non-religious language. The new terms will be BCE (Before Common Era), BP (Before Present) and CE (Common Era).
A spokesman for the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority told The Herald Sun that the new terms were an increasingly common standard for the representation of dates.
Peter Jensen, the Archbishop of Sydney, told The Daily Telegraph that taking references to the birth of Jesus Christ out of school books was an “intellectually absurd attempt to write Christ out of human history.”
“It is absurd because the coming of Christ remains the centre point of dating and because the phrase ‘common era’ is meaningless and misleading,” he told the Sydney Daily Telegraph.
Fred Nile, a minister in New South Wales, told the newspaper it was “an absolute disgrace” and the “final insult” to Australian Christians.
“The direction of the national curriculum is towards almost a Christian cleansing to remove from our history any references to the role Christianity had in the formation of Australia and still has today,” he told The Telegraph.
Renaming truth does not change it.
Taken on its own, it doesn't seem like a big deal to me. However, I can't comment on the overall conditions in Australia which makes this one particular issue so controversial. I sense from the comments in the article that it is one more in a series of moves which speak of some kind of real agenda to remove references to Jesus Christ from the public sphere there. I can't speak to motivations; I'm only hoping that the controversy is not the result of some unjustified Christian hysteria. On the other hand, the trends around the world are definitely both anti-Christian and anti-Jewish, so I think there probably is plenty about which to be concerned.
Speaking as an Australian I can tell u there is plenty to be concerned about. The big deal is that the Government is trying to remove any reference to God & Jesus Christ from schools, among other areas such as media and entertainment. With the new National Curriculum this is only the tip of the iceberg. Another example is where evolution and Aboriginal culture, history and beliefs will be taught, but not creation. I'd say it is about time Christians got 'hysterical' about the secularization of this nation. If we don't, who will. If u think it is 'unjustifiable Christian hysteria' that is your opinion. But take a look at your own country's condition – yes, there is PLENTY to be concerned about. The question is – what will we do about it. If we do nothing, except criticize those making a stand, then we have no recourse for complaint if find one day that being a Christian is a crime. Don't say it won't happen. My concern is that it might have to get to that point before the vast majority of Christians will actually stand up for Christ…. But by then, it will be too late.
I don't need to know what else is happening in Australia. This anti-God crusade is going on everywhere. These are not atheists, they are anti-theologians. As such, they are trying to seny people the right to say or speak of Jesus outside of the church or home. To be fair, it mirrors the verbal persecution christians have voiced over gays. Isn't fascism fun?
Parents must be the teachers of their children…don't rely on the schools to educate your children
No knowledge should be off limits.
The movement for Christian education should be accelerating.
whoever denies me, I will deny before my Father……
Let me state what is going on today in the so called FIRST WORLD COUNTRIES , in many ways they are opposing God and His Messiah Jesus Christ, this indicates thier end has come. Soon God Himself will oppose them and defeat them. Those nations are blind, invaded by multiculture ideology, banning thier History and thier Source as nations. They may clean Jesus from the papers but they will not clean Him from His throne, our heart. And behind all these activities Satan the ancient adversary is struggling to recover his position, Satan u r a losser.
No one is removing Muhammad from books or telling schools that they can not talk about witch craft or Vampires. To many they are their god. If there is to be fairness then it has to be fair to all. Lets take apart the devil bible and rewrite history for muslims and native americans. How about slavery from Africa and the Mayans and their belief system. This is just nonsense. So many people are jumping on the band-wagon because they think its their pURPose to change things that have been here form the beginning of this world.