Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 239
THE CONCEPT OF GOD AMONG. THE ABORIGINES OF AUSTRALIA process from beginning to end in a sequential order is indeed an extremely challenging task. . The debate as to who influenced whom goes unabated. Was it Buddhism, for instance which mothered. Christian ideology or was it Christianity which influenced. Buddhism, is one of the many unresolved questions. But what we find in Australia is a completely different story of a unique singularity. If evidence of the Australian religious experience had supported the sociologists' view, one wonders what their attitude would have been. Would they not have raised a storm and shouted ‘eureka' at the top of their voice in exultation and pride! But with the hard realities of the unadulterated religious history of the. Aborigines staring them in the eye, it is deplorable to watch how desperately they still struggle to escape the inevitable. . We particularly speak of such naturalists as are in a state of shock because they had no faith in God the Creator. As such they were absolutely certain that the history of the. Aborigines would support their convictions and testify to their theories that the idea of God had gradually evolved over thousands of years. But what they have discovered is so different and exasperating. Why exasperating, one may ask, when they are just in search of truth? Why be so profoundly disappointed at the truth being at variance with their own previously held views? It is so because the rejection of any argument which may lead to God is with them predetermined. Any discoveries contrary to this must either be discarded or misinterpreted. Secularism to them is synonymous with the negation of God. Whatever excuses they offer, however, to save the face of their 'secular' theories, serve only to expose their unscientific attitude further. Prejudice is no prerogative, it seems of the religious clergy alone. Non religious thinkers and philosophers can also have their fill of it whenever it suits their purpose. A 233