Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Pauline Hanson calls Australia ‘Judeo-Christian’. But the term is a meaningless modern invention

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par Philip C. Almond, Emeritus Professor in the History of Religious Thought, The University of Queensland

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson argues Australia is “predominately a Judeo-Christian society” and should live under “one cultural umbrella”.

The term “Judeo-Christian” is shorthand, here, for a set of values that privilege Western culture. As a term, it explicitly excludes other world religions, such as Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism.

But this term is, in fact,…

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