(January 20, 2015 at 6:18 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote: God pre-ordains all that comes to pass.
If atheism were true you’d have the same issue but to an even more severe degree since all decisions made on the field would be pre-determined by and according to the chemical processes within the brains of the players and coaches. Let’s all cheer for streams flowing, rocks falling, and ice melting! How boring!
I think there's quite some room for debate on whether self-conscious human thought is entirely deterministic, even though the rest of the universe (and many of the factors influencing any human thought) obviously is.
There is something a lot more comforting about the idea that it's not being controlled by a brutal fuckup of a god, as Christianity asserts, because then we're all victims of intentional malice, instead of practically unpredictable circumstance. What's the point of football if God intended for the Green Bay Packers to lose that game? What's the point of living if God knows precisely when he's going to kill you with cancer?
