(August 23, 2010 at 6:03 am)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: I'm a pessimist or hard incompatabilist on the free will matter. I think that free will makes no sense whether the universe is determined or undetermined.
So how do you know that your belief on this matter wasn't determined by factors outside your control?
Quote:The fact God is said to be all-loving doesn't mean he thinks of love in the same sense as us. Maybe to him, only bothering to reveal himself to some people (if any(!!)) is "love".
True, but most theists would assert that God's love is at least analogous to ours.
'We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.' H.L. Mencken
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
