HeyJaredPhilip C. Almond
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- Aug 13, 2026
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Pauline Hanson calls Australia ‘Judeo-Christian’. But the term is a meaningless modern invention (opens the original)
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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, a relatively recent invention that glosses over Christianity’s role in historically persecuting Jewish people. For several millennia, man
‘Philistine’ is a byword for boorish ignorance – but the real Philistines were cultured. Who were they? (opens the original)
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In modern times, the term “philistine” has generally been used by cultured or elite groups to describe an ignorant or uncultured person. The Philistines were, in fact, people from the Aegean region, perhaps Crete. They arrived on the shores of the south-eastern Mediterranean around 1200 BC, in an area later to be called Palestine. A cultured people, they were specialists in iron-making, advanced weaponry, olive oil, beer and wine production and a distinctive style of pottery. So how did they com
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