Max9
Yes you were. Vatican church missions were responsible as well.
Plus in Australia there are more catholics than anglicans. There was an aggressive expansion after World War II, just at the same time of the aforementioned generation.
In the end it was John Paul II, who we can call Hypocrite Pope*, the man who apologized for that on behalf of vatican missions and catholic church.
This should mean church was responsible with no further need to say the opposite.
*Remember? The pope who asked forgiveness for a lot of church atrocities, the submission of woman too? In his "Mulieris dignitatem" he still pursued his agenda of negating church roles to females.
A good pr, that pope. In public apologetic, in his conduct a strict misoginistic.
And that is not the only two faced thing he admitted.
Like his support to Pinochet and other dictators in order to oppose comunism.
We can talk for hours on how he covered for years those pedophiles found expecially in north africa instead of exposing them and expel them from church.
This paladin of virtue, if we recall correctly, was fast in the ostracism of omosexuality as fast as in the process of beatification of Pius IX, the pro-slavery pope.
Thereafter, hypocrite pope.
Max9
This is another incorrect fact. And a precise one which brings us back into the topic "church and chastity", because a public role was negated, since the early days of christianity, specifically in order to not compromise those womans who would have been in contact with everyone.
Ines
Correct. Let's spit some data, for the sake of my loved history.
The first known landing in Australia by Europeans was in 1606 by Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon.
Later that year, Spanish explorer Luís Vaz de Torres sailed through, and navigated, what is now called Torres Strait and associated islands.
The first colonization happened with James Cook anyway in 1770. Or, better, he got back and argued with London which managed to reach Australia with a fleet in 1788.
Exploring a land and discovering it means only that. Colonization starts when you get your country to favor your expedition with enough power and recognition. Usually, like Pizarro in Peru or Cortez in mexico, you have to be backed up by a nation who sees some sort of gain.
That is why many people laugh at Italy for its poor choices under Mussolini, taking two of the (back then) poorest african countries that nobody wanted just to name itself "Imperial state".
If i recall correctly, the main focus of those years were in the colonization of the islands above Australia for the Dutch, with the VOC (their eastern indian company). But towards the end of 1600 they were already losing terrain to british. Colonizing Australia was a little above theyr capacity I think and i doubt they had some resources to spare towards a territory not yet favourable from a commercial point of view.
Spain too was already losing a lot of control on the western part of the world and had already some big troubles. They were fresh from the loss of the Invincibile Armada against Brits.
British people, instead, were gallantly showing supremacy in the sea against everyone else as "Rule Britannia" anthem shows (1740), which i suggest you to listen because it is really nice and, in my opinion, it is even better than their national anthem. The part we are interested in is:
"Rule Britannia! Britannia rule the waves!
Britons never never never shall be slaves!"
Back on the topic now.
Let's just end with my final provocation.
If we have a concept of morals descending even by old gods, you have to thank satan in person.
This is because the first thing people venerated was the devil.
When Jew created their religion, they took the other veneration of animistic or politeistic phoenomenon and called it "devils".
It is akin christianity, which in later times used Apollo, Mitra and other pagan gods from the past as names for some devils.
Turning past cults into a bunch of demons. That is what created the concept of "demonizing". A smart choice.
But when they could not do it with people so attached to old cults what did they do? Politeism.
"Ok people, now the divinity of the hill and war is no more the one you venerated. Oh but you can pray...uhm...saint... saint... Saint George, yeah. Let us pray him. And this will make you christians!".
But, to mantain the cool status of monoteistic religion, they added between the lnes: "Ojh, of course, with god is veneration, with saints is intercession toward gods, so god remain the only god."
"...And what about Holy Mary?"
"Oh, come ooon! Why you are making this so difficult for us! She...meh, let her stay in between these two things, so we can save the ancient Maya, Inanna, Hera etch concept of fertility goddess and we have covered all".
In nuce.
Some became demons, some became used and this is how you get all those christianity dlc.
Oh, let's not forget the core: trinity was a platonic concept as the whole soul world.
