(August 28, 2008 at 4:47 am)StewartP Wrote:(August 28, 2008 at 3:45 am)KRW1612 Wrote: When white man arrived in Australia 230 years ago they had never heard of the Christian god or Jesus Christ or Allah or Mohammed. Why? because they had never been taught about these entities. Entities that have been man made by other peoples.While that statement is true, it does not infer the following:
(August 28, 2008 at 3:45 am)KRW1612 Wrote: Therefore we are all born non-believers until such time as some of us are indoctrinated by the teachers of religion, whether they be familly, school teachers, clergy, etc.Because the aboriginals had, and still have their own religion.
The Australian aboriginals were a very primitive people when Europeans arrived. They had no written language and were very tribal, so much so that there were upwards of 200 different languages for an estimated 400,000 people.
The Dreamtime could be considered some form of religion, however they do not worship a god. They claim to be guardians of the land. A group of Ancestral spirits in the forms of humans, animals and plants came to Earth and created everything.
As we all know, someone makes up the stories that develop into religious dogma.