(June 7, 2013 at 8:55 pm)Faith No More Wrote:(June 7, 2013 at 3:39 am)Maelstrom Wrote: Believe or burn is not freedom.
How better to enslave someone than to convince them their shackles make them free?
Actually - the claim of FREE will - which xtians love to use as an excuse for almost everything - cannot exist if the god is ALL KNOWING - past - present - and future.
IF the god knew everything that will happen for ALL TIME - then there is ONLY one possible outcome to every situation -the one the god knows. WE cannot be FREE to choose something the god does NOT know - so we have only one possible "choice" - which means NO choice at all.
AND indeed - the idea that you must choose ONE option - or burn is coercion - not choice.