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CHAPTER ELEVEN

With Love to All and

Caution to Many

Before we proceed to a correlative to Chapter Ten, so that just as we were looking at creation, so now we look at Genesis, there is a matter of some moral urgency in Australia to which we briefly turn. For the sequel to Ch. 10, then, see Ch. 12.

It must be realised that God is believed in by many who can give an account that, destabilising all competition, affirms what needs to be proven What is the  Chaff to the Wheat Chs.
3  -  4 , cf. SMR, TMR). But even if this were not so, He is still believed in by many, and in particular, it was the Christian God of Great Britain that was in mind when the Pre-amble to the Constitution in this land was written, under the auspices of a Christian land. It was far from perfect; but that was the official orientation.

Many believe in Him, and it is He who created and sustains the earth in Being, despite sinful misuse by its various 'custodians' of many races, who have lived upon it.  If you for one do not believe, your unbelief does not create the earth (cf. Ch. 10 above). Thus exalting one body above another as custodians, owners or the like  not only forgets to name all the long list of major immigrant bodies who have made together with any others, the whole of Australia in governmental format, but it uses what applies to God, as if it pertained to man. HE is the owner of all lands, and people among themselves change and barter, bash and smash, find or discover, as the case may be, to achieve temporary site occupancy, or immigrate from their initial site directly or through other lands. If they occupy  part, it is that; if all, it is that.

Beware, you who believe in God, in putting one above another as if having more 'right' to what He made, on a basis that derogates Him. Misusing even a justice system to give more 'rights' to some, exalting some before the law, works both ways and misaligns reality. Actually, each plays a part, whether in part occupancy or total, and the exaltation of any one body before the law allows prejudice or evil a clear path. Racism is undesirable, in both directions.

Kindness is what is needed, not racism.

Concern is what is needed, not mischaracterisation or the presentation of theories about occupancy. Valuing of one and all bodies of entry or habitation, at the outset, as at the onset is part of maturity.

Racism and breach of the way of justice more generally, are as abhorrent as are unkindness and lack of compassion for those with special needs. Such things as the two k's, kindness and compassion, cannot be obtained by legislation. It may indeed help the works of the pitiless, to remove some part of gaps through their  indifference, some effects of their oafishness. The good however is to be done, from the heart; and the law is to bring about structural reforms, not chances for injustice, deceit or attack, by opening superior legal place to some, or to their wandering, transmutative desires. Further, many categories of people have been abused in many ways and for many, Australia has made highly commendable provision, not by cornering speech under constrictive command, but by helping with thought and labour. It not easy to match provisions of that kind in this land, in other nations.

However, there are wanderings from foundations, which means cracks in the superstructure, and much of this is weighing like a series of asteroids at this very time. Let us take the marriage issue, and conflict, turning from political wandering to physical ones. Here we come to moral, ethical, evaluation, governing ideas and the like, to the affair of religion. In a democracy such as ours, religious transformation by contempt, command and legal confrontation is mere degradation from what in powerful part is what makes our nation so attractive for so long for so many. In this, we turn from the banana republic, to slipping on the banana and falling.

If reliance on Almighty God, as in the Preamble to the Constitution, is to be displaced as it was conceived at the outset, a fundamental shift at this level is mooted, and part of the Australian heritage NOT enforced by Commonwealth law, which here rather prefers freedom, is to be enforced by something else, it is wise to know what it is, where it goes and from what it comes, this innovation, mutation, transformation.

If then it is to be replaced by religious surges such as one now so often sees in clanging condemnations of the status quo in the matter of marriage, which has already shifted in no small measure, better authority ask the people at least, and each himself or herself, so that all may respond to such increasingly hostile and denunciatory, commanding and punishing, modes of morals and life, values and orientation of living ... to so profound a change. It is not making things equal, but what is not only different but complementary equal, a lie if it be thought out, confusing value or respect, with reality and function. Equating what is different, without such limitation, is distortion, and reality pays back. Haven't you noticed ? For example, fearless breach of many laws and cautions when antibiotics had few limitations, has been followed by sudden peril, and increasing danger. Moreover there is penalty to pay, even as new evasions are sought!

There are things set down in the Preamble noted, of the Constitution, as in our bodies. With superior mien dismissing them as if their significant differentiation were an insult, and abusing those who do not relinquish facts, is merely turning a dream into a nightmare; and harassing constraint for care, is like the voice of passion without knowledge. There are many places for equality in marriage, and this becomes delightful; but as to the nature of the two parties through which,  as to type, our race has come, forcing equality achieves only illusion. Squares and round holes may have equal value; but they are by no means the same, nor are their functions indifferent as set forth by their maker of these things as to type, as indeed the race as to type, by linguistic command, as in Genesis and in the DNA not least.

In all these things, constructive vision is what is needed, and freedom of thought from pre-emptive strikes, not cultural mandates thrown about like dead Autumn leaves to block the drains, to punish those whose ideas accord with visible reality and demonstrable evidences, whether the victim be the body politic or physical. Values may  be made or found; but if made, their religious thrust finds no rest in our Constitution (Section 116). States can so act, but co-operation with the Commonwealth would involve both parties.

Religious inventiveness is not to be sanctioned or commissioned by the Commonwealth, so it is best with such a Constitution to leave the nation free from flimsy popularities of the present, rather than imposing life values, mandated morals, commandeering counsels,  or silencing diversity by legal sanction, presumption and invalidity, while escalating the breach by suppression of free speech. It is not apt here to be entering the discussion with fines, admonitions, abuse or prison. The whole nation is not to be subjected to this collision with what has been, what is in the Bible in particular, to mention one, without all of its people becoming responsible for the results. That would be bullying indeed. If, like England, you do not react soon enough as Hitler arms, then you pay. But it is better to ask... referendum simply shows up the direction of flow of the nation, and if it has its cheque book ready, it can, as with so many others over history, pay. The voters are of age. Let them speak, all of them.

It is often very easy to destroy what is very hard to create, whether in a nation or in an individual.