Lets compile a list of everything wrong with christ-insanity

[Mudhammam]

What the hell is the "law of love," what Captain Planet taught The Planeteers?

What a ridiculous Twinkie Defense of an argument. "I believe a bunch of irrational things because my brain is hard-wired to believe irrational things I doubt are true." What?

I think he was trying to imply, not very clearly, that if atheism is true, then we are all predetermined to hold the beliefs which we adopt. i.e., mechanistic universe leads to deterministic causality. He would presumably claim that it is different if his theory is true, that God gave us all the "gift" of free will.

It isn't so nice and cut and dried as he thinks. Evolution certainly can produce animals which learn from experience and reason about it. Maybe that means there is free will. I'm not 100% sure.

However, if there is a God who is omniscient and omnipotent, that rules out free will. Then Calvinism is the only logical form of Christianity: from all eternity God predestined some to be damned (probably the majority) and some to be saved. There is a certain amount of support in the bible for this notion of predestination. God hardened Pharaoh's heart and then kicked his ass for being such a hard-hearted bastard. Then there are other passages, somewhere in Romans I think, about God being like a potter and having the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for common purposes, and the next verse goes on to talk about God choosing to show his wrath against the objects prepared for destruction.

In short, you have to be confused or sick or blind to remain a Christian. For myself, "I once was blind, but now I see."

You're gonna confuse Disc. He needs it to be spoon fed in simplistic terms.

Man = bad.
GOD = good.
Free will = believing in Jesus zombie-man-god.

Don't confuse him.

That's the kind of mindset he's enslaved to.