The Kiddies
As a wise friend once said when i asked if his girlfriend knew he smoked pot: Yeah, she knows ... She doesn’t know the extent …
Similar to my friend's girlfriend, i knew MSC was involved in mission work in the NT, but didn’t fathom the extent …
I do now. It's way, way more extensive than my friend's pot habit will ever be - can say that up-front.front, as a spoiler. It's like my friend turned out to be El Chapo.Chapo ...
Historically, MSC has been THE mainMain ORG/(religious sectsect) - on-the-planet - conducting missionaryCultural Swamping work in the NT.NT
Backed by funds, enforcement from the Government. (A funding pipeline they'veMSC growngrew powerfulattached on.to)
MSC was: The Face of: Australia’s Colonizational-interaction with NT’s indigenous tribes - Tiwis & Mainlanders
The full Mind-control offensive front-line Actors. Including: child education, (weird) religious inculcation/cultural severance
The goal: assimilation. All conducted according to government-backed policy.
(Not saying i do fathom the full-extent of MSC's impact on NT Originals. That's not possible.possible*. But research is like statistics. When you hit 2000 genuine random samples/turn over 2000 research stones,stones turned you start to get a very good idea. There's a cliff-drop thereafter in terms of closing down the margin of error by increasing poll/stone turning numbers. Take a break. Analyze/write up what you've got.
* (Disclaimer: technicallyTechnically, AI is doing it by polling everyone)everyone's every keystroke, so it is possible - more than possible - actual.)
That means: MSC was the face of Australia’s interaction with NT’s indigenous tribes re education, religious inculcation, assimilation. All conducted according to government-backed policy.
Pop question: What percent of adult First Nations People were converted to Christianity?Christianity by MSC?
Ans: zero
Yeah surprised me at first, too, but when you think about it …
Hi, i’m some alien guy here to spread the good news that the Virgin Mary gave birth to Jesus who died on the cross to save us1800 years ago - then ascended into heaven!
Yeah … no. We're good, mate - we’ve got our own beliefs - the Everywhen
Maybe that’s how the great Aussie Yeah-no thinking came into being ... ?
The Jesuits, best-in-the-business at connecting to indigenous tribes - learn the language, do the Sunday mass in it, permeate into the culture, incorporate it, the whole bit - they had first crack, naturally …
French Trappists, no slouches,slouches at proselytizing, also set up shop, separatelyseparately.
They both gave it their best shot … then … : gave up ...
Abandoned their humble mission structures - said: itIt can’t be done …
That left THE Church in a pickle. If your stated goal is worldWorld mind-Mind-control - you can’t throw ya hands in the air coz a whole continent of First Nations humans says: Yyeaheah - no
The responsibility was then delegated by the THE Church to MSC. They didn't want it - their focus was PNG. But you can accuse THE Church of whatever you like, you can’t accuse them of not being a disciplined hierarchy. If you’re told to do something, as a fledgling Order, then it’s like someone said to De Niro’s character in Casino,Casino: but more-so: Cconsideronsider it a papal Papal-bull …
MSC, reluctantly, through the agency of Francis Gsell, took on the jobjob. - then,Then, depending upon your criteria, succeeded in converting large numbers of First Nations People …
The adults were still a dead-end of course, in fact trying to convert them was banned from the Higher-up-ers as a waste of resources. The magic trick?:
Get into the kiddies
aka: the Stolen Generation (1905-67)
The MSC missions in NT were theThe Vocational Training Camps for stolen kids. They were their main customers. Although Govt/MSC child-stealing was officially discontinued as a policy in 1967 (lingered into the 70s, unofficially), kids taken in the 60’s would have been 11-years old through to teenagers from the mid-seventies to eighties - so that formative years impact-zone stretches into recent history. That shit doesn't go away, btw. Those people, now late-50+ years-old, are still dealing with the impacts ...
Stolen-generation was mainly about removing mixed-blood children from their parents. The (misguided) thinking was that in order to protect a dwindling pure-blood population from extinction, the half-castes needed to be segregated & assimilated into the White-population.
But when that program was discontinued, it then became Aboriginal children in general that were brought under the protective umbrella of the Catholic Church. The Church will argue that they were not stolen as such - Francis Gsell bought them with tobacco, steel (for weapons), & various trinkets. The children were then offered accommodation/education at the missions where they were raised as Catholics. In effect, the elder-system, which had run for 60k years, was severed. It was replaced with The Church.
As such, MSC missions would serve as a melting-pot for the children of different skin groups, united in the love of Jesus …
How did that work out? Let’s take a look …