(July 11, 2015 at 11:52 am)Randy Carson Wrote:(July 11, 2015 at 11:46 am)Metis Wrote: But to choose anything but the option that produces the maximum Good would be a bad, a sin. So there can only ever be one option, which contradicts the notion of free will.
Shotgun Blackmail: "Do what I want or else!"
1) How is the love from a hostage at gun point any more real than a Stepford wife? I'd suggest it would be less so, since at very least the Stepford Wife cannot experience fear unless you want her to.
2) I don't know about you, but when I met my partner I just asked him out, I didn't suspend him over a lake of fire by his ankles waving a book at him screeching "Love me or Burn!!!"
Before I address any of this, have you read Akin's article in full?
Reminds one of Mitt Romney, doesn't it? He doesn't have anything worthwhile to say so he refers us to a website or book. This is really insulting if he thinks we are such dolts that we can't see through this rouse. For a cover, this is two inches thinner than wet tissue paper.
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The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
