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Hell and Other Destinations
Hell has been much in the news lately, oddly for these self-worshipping, hedonistic and non-believing times.
By wading yet again into the waters of Folau, one risks over-egging the story. But the Folau saga is the gift that keeps on giving, and there is yet another angle here, one that explains much of the backstory and which has been mostly overlooked.
Those who support Folau, increasingly with their hard-earned, it seems, fall into three distinct camps. There are those who support what he said about unrepentant sinners going to hell, those who (it seems) loathe what he said but, following Voltaire (or whoever actually uttered the words first), will defend to the death, or somewhere approaching death, his right to say it, and, finally, those who couldn’t give a rat’s but still go with the freedom of speech defence.
Those who oppose Folau are mostly just one big blob. They think he is a bigot and that he should be silenced. Some think he is a rich bigot. There are…
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