"A sin without volition is a slap at morality and an insolent contradiction in terms: that which is outside the possibility of choice is outside the province of morality. If man is evil by birth, he has no will, no power to change it; if he has no will, he can be neither good nor evil; a robot is amoral. To hold, as man’s sin, a fact not open to his choice is a mockery of morality. To hold man’s nature as his sin is a mockery of nature. To punish him for a crime he committed before he was born is a mockery of justice. To hold him guilty in a matter where no innocence exists is a mockery of reason. To destroy morality, nature, justice and reason by means of a single concept is a feat of evil hardly to be matched."
Tell that to the superstitious nutbars! They will tell you (as their most famous leader, Martin Luther did) that REASON IS A WHORE. If reason contradicts anything in their superstitious literature, then reason is a whore! I like what Xenophanes said centuries before the Jesus myth got cobbled together:
"If horses could draw, they would draw their gods like horses". |
