My views on God and religion

[LinuxGal]

Coders run across it all the time.  An efficient way to build a function is to make it recursive.  While it's running it calls itself, and that second instance calls itself, and so on, until a certain condition is met and the whole chain stops.  But the "will" function has no exit criteria.  You can never will what you will.

That is interesting.

You know, I think this kind of goes with the fundamental laws of the universe and everything operating independently from a supreme being like god, if kind of. When I was reminded of free will not being a thing when I first came to this forum, I accepted that, because it made so much sense, and I thought it being an illusion as some sites I saw from long ago was potentially valid, as people seem to cling on to things like that of free will as a mental need.

Typically believers invoke free will to solve problems in theodicy...the problem of evil.  When God is put forward as all powerful and all knowing and all good, people ask why the Holocaust happened.  Believers tell us it's because God wanted Hitler to have free will.