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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: LindyBill who wrote (311900)6/27/2009 5:01:01 PM
From: Maurice Winn1 Recommendation  Read Replies (4) of 793838
 
Christians don't know their own theology. They claim that Go- Him-elf gave Adam and his rib free will to go and eat apples if they chose to do so. Ayn said the same = God is NOT above people. People do the deciding, Go- does the disposing AFTER they have died. Ayn said the same as the Christians in terms of free will.

<Rand could not accept that any man, or any entity, had power over the individual. This has handicapped some on the Right in America from embracing the rest of what, to them, would normally be a highly compatible philosophy >

Some on the Right should think about their theology regarding free will. Their theology is that God is NOT in charge of individuals. God gave out free will and is not an Indian giver.

They have it backwards, God was created in the image of man, not the reverse [and said God was definitely masculine].

Of course, there is no free will and there is no God. Minds work on physics and it's not a matter of dice. It's a deterministic cosmos, quantum physics blather aside. The supposed quantum randomness is not random, it's causal. There has never been anything to be shown to be non-causal. Popper's falsifiability test has been passed = so far.

Rand was also wrong in the sense of free will too because free will only exists in a narrow sense and each individual's mind is a product of what has gone before. But it's the best we have.

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