2025 MAY 24 AUSTRALIA It is not possible to separate “Welcome to Country” ceremony from pagan beliefs.

PAGANISATION CREATION-WORSHIP: is intrinsically linked to polytheistic Spiritism

Without prejudice
OPINION

“WELCOME TO COUNTRY”

by Martyn Iles

There are a few terms.

• a/k/a “Acknowledgement of Country”.

• a/k/a “Land Acknowledgement”.

And it’s global - even in the USA - I (Martyn Iles) sat through one in a theatre in Chicago.

TRUTH PILL: Pagan, Paganistic, Paganisation = SPIRITISIM¹

The reason elders past and future are both acknowledged and respected is because they're regarded as present in spirit.

The reason the land is part of the acknowledgement is that their spirits are not only present, but also one with the land; that is from where they come, and to where they return.

The physical land is not simply real estate, but a living, breathing web of ancestral presence - past and future. It is the spiritual matrix of all things - like Gaia, as others have called it.

It's a system of creation-worship, like all paganistic systems.

Paganistic systems are devilish, they degrade life, and they rob God of His creatorial glory.

This modern rush to 'reconcile' with indigenous people is too often a disguised effort at re-paganisation; an effort to keep them in the darkness of pre-Christian spiritual decay.

In other words, it's pushing in the wrong direction... a direction I cannot have anything to do with whatsoever because I serve a Holy God who has no part in spiritual darkness.

So... that's why it's a no from me.

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A Christian reconciliation would move forward, not backward. It would be based on simple forgiveness and the advent of a new day with the past behind us. That is what God does and what God requires - something the pagan spirits have never known nor practised, so they trap people in misery.

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Acknowledgement Original Sources

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