(August 22, 2012 at 11:56 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Plus, again, even if if this tallest of tales was even remotely true, wasn't the free will of the thugs do do whatever they had planned to do been taken away by direct divine intervention? How does all this, plus my original question, square with the idea of a god and related detritus that values human free will above everything else and, allegedly, refuses to intervene and thus take such free will away? Anyone else getting a headache?
As I said, the excuse can be given that the thugs could still choose not to believe by chalking up the experience to a hallucination, or attributing it to a trick of light, or convincing themselves that their memories were not accurate, or by telling themselves that they were victims of an elaborate prank. The rationalization is that the mere possibility of these choices negate any violation of free-will. The problem comes when the same rationalization is denied where no intervention takes place.
