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To: Brumar89 who wrote (43818)	12/8/2013 6:06:15 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

"When have I said I represent someone other than myself?" You tossing around the word Christian like it is a generic term with some homogenous meaning. It is just as ridiculous using the word Muslim, Jew and Buddhist similarly. All of them have millions of adherents with hundreds of sects that believe in completely different fables and fireside tales. You would be better off believing in Ronald McDonald and Disney Land as holy entities which at least have corporate headquarters that you can see and touch. When I order a cheese burger at McDonald's I can suspend my reason and pretend it is supernatural because I have no idea how they do it. Of course I see Mexicans running around in the back but perhaps they are God's holy angels performing miracles and feats of Hercules. Remember Brumar If you believe in the supernatural you don't believe in free will. To think is an act of choice. The key to what you so recklessly call “human nature,” the open secret you live with, yet dread to name, is the fact that man is a being of volitional consciousness. Reason does not work automatically; thinking is not a mechanical process; the connections of logic are not made by instinct. The function of your stomach, lungs or heart is automatic; the function of your mind is not. In any hour and issue of your life, you are free to think or to evade that effort. But you are not free to escape from your nature, from the fact that reason is your means of survival—so that for you, who are a human being, the question “to be or not to be” is the question “to think or not to think.” A being of volitional consciousness has no automatic course of behavior. He needs a code of values to guide his actions." Ayn Rand