> In a message dated 96-11-02 11:14:16 EST, you write:
>
> > > > > > >On the other hand, religions often restrict people in their
> actions, thus
> > > > > > >curtailing their enjoyment of life. I am an athiest because I
> believe in
> > > > > > >maximum freedom for everyone - religion goes against this belief,
> and so
> > > > > > >I must oppose it!
>
> Religions do two different things: talk about God and provide a moral code.
> You (as an atheist) are talking about moral code here, rather than God. And
> your moral code is "maximum freedom" for everone. Isn't that Free Will, the
> basic tenet of Christianity?
>
> Thus, your belief meme is a variant of one of Christianity's memes (or vice
> versa).
>
> Marc Miller
WHICH Christianity's memes???
Certainly not the Calvinist branches of Protestantism. Many other branches
gasp in horror at this one precisely *because* the Calvinist branches
insist on the total *absence* of free will with respect to "salvation".
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