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Old 12-16-2011, 10:37 AM   #8 (permalink)
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This stood out to me as well. I don't understand it when religions teach that God has a plan for everyone, that they're pre-destined, but also belief in everlasting punishment for evil deeds after death.
There's actually a school of thought called compatibilism that says that even in a deterministic universe, there is free will. Just not free will in the popular sense of the word. Kinda hard to explain and I'm not all that great a philosopher anyway. Of course there's also incompatibilism.
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