Do religions really make a positive impact on the world?
How does an intolerant Christianity, or Islam, or Mormonism, or any religious creed make for a better world?
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AS A fully convinced atheist I am appalled with the religious position of sports identity Israel Falau.
The social media list purportedly set up by Folau is a sad one of discriminatory prejudices not worthy of anyone in the 21st century. It is a hate list.
How can anyone be guided by such exclusionary characterisations based upon hate of differences.
What type of God does Folau follow or believe in?
How does an intolerant Christianity, or Islam, or Mormonism, or any religious creed make for a better world?
How can we respect a world whose beliefs of the past cast shadows over the realities of the present and future?
If religion creates light from shadows, it is still darkness.
Especially when the lights of science and reason have chased the shadows back into their archaeological crypts.
How can any modern rational person or group of people think as alleged by Folau?
To discriminate, to persecute, to ostracise and exclude from the wonderful diversity of the human race.
What sort of bankrupt moral universe causes this discriminatory evil?
MICHEAL HENDERSON
Maroochydore
Originally published as Do religions really make a positive impact on the world?
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