The website of the Sydney Anglical Diocese features the 'acknowledgement of country'
effectively a paean to the paganised 'spirits of land and ancestors'.
I am astonished that a prominent
Christian church would advertise pagan ideas.
Now I wonder if the Sydney Anglican
disparagement of the direct reading of Genesis 1 might play into this.
Cutting off God from our material world and active obvious presence in
our flow of history must make him less palpable (not palpable at all).
It must reduce his closeness and real-ness to some extent, and must make
him less present to those who do this. He becomes figurative, part of a
tale rather than part of our history and our life-world and one becomes de-sensitised to his glory and wonder.
