I don’t care for the phrase ‘free will.’ It’s religion’s way of excusing bad choices. Our lives are made up of choices. Some of those choices can be affected certainly by events that could have been out of our control. (example, you were abused as a child, perhaps now you’ve become very guarded as an adult, and therefore, many of your ‘choices’ stem from that worldview) Free will is a meaningless, trite phrase in my opinion. Of course we have ‘free will.’ It’s called choice. With choices, come responsibility. Religious people will look at the world, and when bad things happen say…well, God gave us ‘free will.’ No shit we have free will, but it’s just a matter of semantics. Have never understood the need to attach a Diety to my ability to make bad or good choices. The same religious person will say when a person makes a good choice, ‘’That’s God at work.’’ When that same person makes a bad/immoral choice …’’Well, God gave us free will.’’ I dislike this idea, because it implies that if there exists a god, he must be a puppeteer and we are the puppets, but only when something positive happens. 
