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Oleander · 10-12-2008, 09:21 PM

I don't see how freewill is necessarily religion-based or not, though in a general way it is something that is either believed or not. Extreme Calvinism excludes freewill except for God (which makes its whole religious basis pointless - you can't help what you do and whether God calls you or not depends on God).

I take the view that all religions are the symbols of a former age that have become taken literally. They should go on to a metaphysical interpretation along the lines that this image you've been given of a God-person really stands for your own understanding and relationships as part of a working whole that is more than individual reactions to animal responses. It's become like children taking the equations of physics as a substitution code because they have no idea what all the symbols stand for.

10-12-2008, 09:21 PM	#42 (permalink)
Oleander Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Type: INFP Posts: 86	I don't see how freewill is necessarily religion-based or not, though in a general way it is something that is either believed or not. Extreme Calvinism excludes freewill except for God (which makes its whole religious basis pointless - you can't help what you do and whether God calls you or not depends on God). I take the view that all religions are the symbols of a former age that have become taken literally. They should go on to a metaphysical interpretation along the lines that this image you've been given of a God-person really stands for your own understanding and relationships as part of a working whole that is more than individual reactions to animal responses. It's become like children taking the equations of physics as a substitution code because they have no idea what all the symbols stand for.