RE: A thing about religious (and other) people and the illusion of free will
November 13, 2023 at 11:17 pm
(This post was last modified: November 13, 2023 at 11:20 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 13, 2023 at 5:39 pm)The Architect Of Fate Wrote:Quote:God much rather have spiritual beings with free will with evil, than beings with no free will and no evil.Then he bears all responsibility for evil by that preference. But the idea that evil and free will must exist at the same time is absurd
-and more than a little bit disturbing if absurdly true. We don't let sex crimers sex crime just because they freely will it. Hey...maybe they do..but even so. God is there on the tip of every offenders peener - sees the whole sorry thing. Could do something, but doesn't...because it doesn't want to prove itself too much.
This, according to a christian. To me, it seems like the proposed solution is even worse than the issue it's being propped up as an excuse for.
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