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With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven Weinberg
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Actually, if it wasn't for randomness, it would really suck to be poor. If only god was to tell who might get rich (probably even without lifting a finger) it could create a lot of hate - if it's by chance, everyone has a lot and if personal effort can be a plus, i even helps society.
As proved here, randomness by nature is way better than godly randomnessWith or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven Weinberg
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I wasn't talking about God. Randomness and the existance of God aren't incompatable. I was simply talking about determinism (not the belief that humans can predict anything, but the absence of truly random events).I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
- Justice Brett Kavanaugh
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Originally posted by BlackCat View PostActually, if it wasn't for randomness, it would really suck to be poor. If only god was to tell who might get rich (probably even without lifting a finger) it could create a lot of hate - if it's by chance, everyone has a lot and if personal effort can be a plus, i even helps society.
As proved here, randomness by nature is way better than godly randomnessI drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
- Justice Brett Kavanaugh
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But that's your real problem - you can't have randomness if god can intervene when he wants. The randomness is controlled as long as it does what god wants but is corrected if it deivates.
Sorry food alarm callsLast edited by BlackCat; November 19, 2011, 23:34.With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven Weinberg
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Originally posted by BlackCat View PostBut that's your real problem - you can't have randomness if god can intervene when he wants. The randomness is controlled as long as it does what god wants but is corrected if it deivates.“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)
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Of course they do. We deliberately curb their freedom of choice however because we don't judge them able to clearly choose their own paths and consider the repurcussions of their decisions. Are you saying that humanity under god is in the same position?
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Originally posted by kentonio View PostAs soon as you have a god who either intervenes or has a plan or plays any part in humanities goings on, then free will becauses nonsensical.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.
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Originally posted by kentonio View PostAs soon as you have a god who either intervenes or has a plan or plays any part in humanities goings on, then free will becauses nonsensical.I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
- Justice Brett Kavanaugh
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Originally posted by Oerdin View PostIndeed. "I'm going to let you do what ever you want but then I will torture the **** out of you when ever you don't do what I want."I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
- Justice Brett Kavanaugh
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Originally posted by Kidicious View PostWhen you believe in the supernarural making sense doesn't carry the meaning. But if you don't believe in supernatural then free will doesn't make sense. Then all your actions are predetermined because free will doesn't fit sensically into your belief system.
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Like I told Molly, I believe he's trying to imply that, if you don't believe in God, you must necessarily be a strict materialist determinist, or whatever you call people who think choice is an after-the-fact label for our meat machines reacting in a theoretically predictable manner.
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