Australian Identity & Bible Nationalism PART 8

Certain Roman Catholics, fuelled by fear of Protestant powers, a desire for riches, attempted to colonise in the South Pacific.

One deluded fanatic, de Quiros in 1606, holding up relics, claimed certain Pacific Islands as if he had claimed the entire South for the Papal religion. The venture failed, but years afterward, a cardinal deceptively suggested that de Quiros had laid foot on the Australian continent.

Maps of that age could only draw small bits of the southern land which the ancients guessed laid there. But the Catholics continued their myth, implying that they were the lords of the Great South Land of the Holy Spirit.

Those who ought have been of the highest profession of the Anglo-Protestant remnant bought into this Southland of the Holy Spirit myth, leading them ever closer to denying their own Protestantism. However, any ceremony dedicating Australia to the heart of the Virgin, etc. must be held in contempt. They cannot usurp us of owning our identity.

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