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What to make of a massive Hindu statue unveiled in Western Sydney this week?

I suppose it’s better than a mosque.

Are we even allowed to say that?

New Hindu Idol in Western Sydney

The 15m statue of religious guru Bhagwan Swaminarayan is the highest metal statue in Australia.

The image, part of a Hindu temple and cultural precinct that takes up the equivalent of 14 football fields, was unveiled with federal ministers Chris Bowen and Michelle Rowland quietly nodding their approval.

This is what is meant by multiculturalism. The idea that immigrants are supposed to integrate into Australian culture is, by now, obviously a complete furphy.

The Hindu statue is a taste of Indian religion and culture to go with the butter chicken we were all led to believe was the extent of multiculturalism.

Personally, I think we should put Christ the Redeemer at the entrance to Sydney Harbour.

Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Credit: Adobe.

Can you imagine the outcry?

The same people fawning over the exotic Hindu statue would be screeching like crazy Karens, with veins popping out of their necks: ‘Christian nationalism!’ and ‘Theocracy!’ and ‘Separation of Church and State!’

Christianity and Religious Tolerance

The great irony of Christianity is that it contains, within itself, the seeds of its own destruction…

Christian nations always come to be the freest and most tolerant nations in the world because Christianity teaches that freedom of conscience is an inalienable gift from God.

That freedom is then invariably leveraged by every man and his dog to do whatever is right in their own eyes.

Add to that the pluralism that Christianity necessarily allows room for, and before you know it, you have a once-Christian nation with a 15m Hindu statue looking down over it.

Not to mention pro-Palestinian rallies every other weekend.

To go nicely alongside the LBGTQ Mardi Gras, and every other thing you can possibly imagine.

It’s Not Culture or Immigration. It’s Spirituality

In the case of the Hindu monolith, the usual suspects will rage about immigration ruining this country, or about the failure of migrants to properly integrate.

But the real issue is not cultural. It’s spiritual.

Just as politics is downstream of culture, culture is downstream of spirituality.

Neither a nation, nor the individuals within that nation, can expect to enjoy all the fruits of Christianity without watering the garden that produced them.

The ‘Australia as we knew it’ will be forever lost until we rediscover the garden in which all that we came to take for granted grew.

That garden is Christianity.

Christianity: The Only Worldview That Truly Produces Human Flourishing

And for those who wish to dispute the fact, be my guest. I wait for you to nominate any other soil that has been able to consistently create an environment in which human freedoms have flourished to the extent they have in the West.

On this point Ayaan Hirsi Ali is instructive.

Ayaan was raised Muslim but became one of the most prominent atheist in the world after rejecting Islam as a totalitarian religion to be escaped rather than embraced.

But in recent times, much to the dismay of her mentor Richard Dawkins, she has given her life to Jesus Christ and become a serious Christian.

The reason?

She realised that Christianity is the only ‘worldview’ that truly produces human flourishing and that is because it is a true view of the world.

You can adjust your political and cultural settings all you want, but all of those things are downstream from religion.

Your worldview creates your culture and your culture will be reflected in your politics.

If you want your country back, you’re got to get your religion back. There is no other way.

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Republished with thanks to The James Macpherson Report.

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