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Calvinism?
Posted on: July 16, 2010 - 2:45pm
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Calvinism?
Does anybody else think that it's odd that there are Christians that say they believe in free will, but justify unanswered prayers by saying it was God's will?
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It's not odd, it's normal for them. Logic has no place in religion. Inconsistencies abound. I usually point out the inconsistencies, watch them struggle to justify, then shrug and move on.
-- I feel so much better since I stopped trying to believe.
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QFT. It is not even a little bit odd. Sometimes instead of struggling to justify, they will even directly state that logic does not apply to religion.
I don't understand why the Christians I meet find it so confusing that I care about the fact that they are wasting huge amounts of time and resources playing with their imaginary friend. Even non-confrontational religion hurts atheists because we live in a society which is constantly wasting resources and rejecting rational thinking.
The fact that otherwise intelligent people will throw logic out the window is what frightens me about religion.
That isn't too odd, really. The propositions that people have free will, and god has free will, are not mutually exclusive.
I just don't see how free will and prophecy are compatible.
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It's more or less odd depending on what free will means.
Our revels now are ended. These our actors, | As I foretold you, were all spirits, and | Are melted into air, into thin air; | And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, | The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, | The solemn temples, the great globe itself, - Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, | And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, | Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff | As dreams are made on, and our little life | Is rounded with a sleep. - Shakespeare
You have the free will to do what god has deemed you will do. Makes perfect sense.
Hahahahaha Exactly.
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I have secretly decided it is better to roast in hell for an eternity....
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