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To: Brumar89 who wrote (45539)	1/25/2014 11:41:11 AM
From: average joe	1 Recommendation Recommended By Solon Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

Not such a paradox. If we didn't have free will, where would the guilt from sin come from? Guilt is important for Christians... without it your gambit falls to pieces. "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. Yet that is the root of your code." Ayn Rand

To: Brumar89 who wrote (45539)	1/25/2014 11:53:06 AM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

Not such a paradox....its a huge paradox, you never could get your story straight. And free will is pretty much an illusion, look how most all human beings chase after things, rush thru their youth tossed & thrown till of a sudden its gone . If i am wrong about this, then tell me why the great majority of people, generation after generation always face so much regret later in life, when they reach old age? If men possessed free will, they would not universally all suffer this same fate, looking back. I rest my case, you are feebly grandstanding with the free will thing, not knowing what you really believe,or at least here is a case of rationalizing but not believing what you preach.