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Questioning the ten commandments

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On the ten commandments, briefly: If you are not indigenous to land, you would have had to (‘Thou Shalt Not Kill’) kill to stake your claim of private property; (‘Thou Shalt Not Steal’), steal and then lie covering it up; (‘Thou shalt not give false testimony’), lie.

With these tenets torn asunder in the building of empires from the Hellenic to the Roman Empire, to modern imperialist empires, how much is systematically taken for granted when, for example, the Indigenous, or the African Americans and their history of slavery in the Americas, or the Palestinians in Palestine in the institutions (government, policing, and education) of modern-day colonies and their various forms of ongoing oppression, which can only exist while the same systems turn a wilful blind eye to the brutality and corruption of courts, institutions, politicians and peoples that is required to hide its own past, but the living history in terms of generational trauma, dispossession and enslavement carried in personages? A horrific future portends if the colonisers fail to account for their hand in this history. An apology is only the beginning of reconciliation. The New Testament is particularly misogynistic.

Danielle Haliczer, Ocean Shores


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5 COMMENTS

  1. You need to learn to see things from other people’s perspective. They found a bunch of vacant land, devoid of any villages or cultivated fields, so they started building. When they were established, nomadic tribes would try to murder them and steal their stuff, so they defended themselves. They told you what they experienced, and you call them liars. Have a think about it.

  2. What a load of hogwash, don’t you have something better to entertain you?. For goodness sake, spare us the agony.

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