Pacific Islanders were once conquered and oppressed by the white man and his [misunderstanding of] religion. Now the author seeks to re-conquer them with the white man's irreligion.

In this game, they are the ball!

Folau is the religious equivalent of a flat earther and indoctrinated from birth to believe his religious claptrap. Richard Bramston tells a story, where he invites a highly placed flat earth official for a ride in one of his low orbit rocket ships.

Anyhow the ride is accepted and the invitee is glued to a porthole. Upon landing, Sir Richards enquires, and here I paraphrase, "what do you believe know"? Given the Flat earther had witnessed with his own eyeballs a round earth.

The flat earther apparently replied," the graphics were incredibly lifelike as were the special effects". And then walked away, his brainwashed from birth belief system unchanged.

Folau needs to read a bit and with regard to the work of world-class geneticist Alan Sanders and his peer-reviewed research that has discovered at least two confirmed genes that exist only in the gay population and at least three other probables?

. If He believes in a just and merciful God, and that his God created man in his own image. Then he has no choice but accept that that includes all the genetic variations.

To do any other means, he is no better than the brainwashed from birth flat earther and able to completely discount incontrovertible evidence of God's handiwork!
Alan B.

One can only conclude that what the secular bigots have always claim is a fairy tale, they now believe otherwise how could one be offended? The 'rationalist' are to irrational to see the contradiction in their bigotry.

It's always the people most ignorant of Christianity who criticise it the most.

Runner, you are blind to your own bigotry re ‘your’ Christianity’.

“In general, the more seriously Christianity is taken, the less pleasant it becomes. (This is equally true of all three Mid-Eastern religions.) Of course sub sects of Christians differ. At one extreme you  have the Unitarians, who believe that if God existed, He would be a force for community betterment. At the other extreme you have the Catholics at their worst, tearing people slowly limb from limb.

Christianity has a long and dismal history of oddball sects and heresies which often have fought bloody wars. Aryans, Cathars, Protestants, Mormons, Tai Pings, Moonies, Snake Handlers, Evangelicals. I have seen conservatives criticizing the Chinese for suppressing Christianity. The Chinese have their reasons. From 1850 to 1864 the Tai Pings, a truly screwy off-brand Christianity whose leader thought he was the little brother of Jesus, caused what may have been the bloodiest civil war in history. When leaders think they are on Whatsapp with God, they will do what they think He tells them. And if God says to smite Iran, smite Iran they will.

Grotesque torture as a  means of social control  was not limited to Mexico or Catholics. The history of Europe is a monstrous tapestry of barbarism by those three awful Mid-Eastern religions warring, butchering, burning heretics, the rack, strappado, The Jews behaved much less badly because ,lacking a country and an army, they had to. When they acquired these things, they began behaving like Christians and Moslems.”

So much for the virtues of Christianity!
Go figure.

yep Galen certainly the Catholic church's history is only surpassed by the god deniers such as Stalin, Mao and the current day baby murderers. I suspect you are blinded by your bigotry and selective version of history. And back to Israel's post!