Pauline Hanson calls Australia ‘Judeo-Christian’. But the term is a meaningless modern invention

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson argues Australia is “predominately a Judeo-Christian society” and should live under “one cultural umbrella”. The term “Judeo-Christian” is shorthand, here, for a set of values that privilege Western culture. As a term, it explicitly excludes other world religions, such as Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism. But this term is, in fact, a relatively recent invention that glosses over Christianity’s role in historically persecuting Jewish people. For several millennia,…