It may be that Pfizer actually opposes whatever that political item down under happens to be - and knows that their support will help alienate people's support? I don't know enough about it all to say... But I think that grave injustice has been done indigenous people there, just as has happened in the Americas and everywhere else, by alleged Christians and colonists. In Palestine it's Christians and Zionists (often, Jews in rebellion against the almighty and Jewish Law, who reject the Torah, and sometimes atheists/ assimilationists), but it's the same dynamic.
If Pfizer says that sky is blue, or denies that, does it really change anything? It is, or it isn't.
In fact the injustices here in Australia were done by pastoralists in the main and the government, and in fact many of the worst injustices were done in the name of Darwinism actually (from 1865 onwards Aboriginal people were seen as lower down the evolutionary tree and therefore sub human - lectures took place on evolutionary theory in Melbourne and Sydney and the works of Darwin and Haenkel were known); if anything, the sin of some of the early missionaries was not to speak up against these abuses. In recent history, Christian organisations collaborated in some of the government measures, taking children away from their parents, however, in the early days, a select group of Christian missionaries in Australia were the only European people who were supporting Aboriginal peoples' rights during the nineteenth century period of colonisation. The Presbyterian missionary John Green is notable for founding Coranderrk, a thriving sheep and cattle station, administered and run by the community themselves; he merely acted as pastor, they did the farming and the leadership in Coranderrk was Aboriginal. Robert Lyon and later Louis Giustiani, both missionaries in Western Australia, were the only people in the colony who supported the right of Aboriginal people to defend their rights to the land; Robert Lyon called an Aboriginal leader Yagan who resisted a prisoner of war, and not a murderer, as he was labelled by the governor and the newspapers at the time - and both Lyon and Giustiaini pointed out that the British were invaders and that they did not have the right to take this country in the first place. Ernest Gribble played a key role in the recognition of the Forrest River massacre in 1926. Many of these people suffered being outcasts from white society in return for their support for the Aborigines. It is quite unjust to accuse missionaries of the abuses. The abuses were perpetrated by people who were Christians in label only and did not practice Jesus' commands at all.
There are many reasons to be suspicious of any attempts to change the constitution, which is designed to be fair and just to everyone of every race, and there are also many reasons to be suspicious of Pfizer's attempts to meddle in our internal politics. And their hypocrisy is outstanding.
PS I think what you're saying is just that - many people did not follow Christ who said they were Christians and these were the ones who committed abuses
PPS I don't believe in templates ("the same dynamic") every historical situation is unique and to truly understand it we need to know the details.
It may be that Pfizer actually opposes whatever that political item down under happens to be - and knows that their support will help alienate people's support? I don't know enough about it all to say... But I think that grave injustice has been done indigenous people there, just as has happened in the Americas and everywhere else, by alleged Christians and colonists. In Palestine it's Christians and Zionists (often, Jews in rebellion against the almighty and Jewish Law, who reject the Torah, and sometimes atheists/ assimilationists), but it's the same dynamic.
If Pfizer says that sky is blue, or denies that, does it really change anything? It is, or it isn't.
In fact the injustices here in Australia were done by pastoralists in the main and the government, and in fact many of the worst injustices were done in the name of Darwinism actually (from 1865 onwards Aboriginal people were seen as lower down the evolutionary tree and therefore sub human - lectures took place on evolutionary theory in Melbourne and Sydney and the works of Darwin and Haenkel were known); if anything, the sin of some of the early missionaries was not to speak up against these abuses. In recent history, Christian organisations collaborated in some of the government measures, taking children away from their parents, however, in the early days, a select group of Christian missionaries in Australia were the only European people who were supporting Aboriginal peoples' rights during the nineteenth century period of colonisation. The Presbyterian missionary John Green is notable for founding Coranderrk, a thriving sheep and cattle station, administered and run by the community themselves; he merely acted as pastor, they did the farming and the leadership in Coranderrk was Aboriginal. Robert Lyon and later Louis Giustiani, both missionaries in Western Australia, were the only people in the colony who supported the right of Aboriginal people to defend their rights to the land; Robert Lyon called an Aboriginal leader Yagan who resisted a prisoner of war, and not a murderer, as he was labelled by the governor and the newspapers at the time - and both Lyon and Giustiaini pointed out that the British were invaders and that they did not have the right to take this country in the first place. Ernest Gribble played a key role in the recognition of the Forrest River massacre in 1926. Many of these people suffered being outcasts from white society in return for their support for the Aborigines. It is quite unjust to accuse missionaries of the abuses. The abuses were perpetrated by people who were Christians in label only and did not practice Jesus' commands at all.
There are many reasons to be suspicious of any attempts to change the constitution, which is designed to be fair and just to everyone of every race, and there are also many reasons to be suspicious of Pfizer's attempts to meddle in our internal politics. And their hypocrisy is outstanding.
PS I think what you're saying is just that - many people did not follow Christ who said they were Christians and these were the ones who committed abuses
PPS I don't believe in templates ("the same dynamic") every historical situation is unique and to truly understand it we need to know the details.