Category Archives: Around the Web
Around the Web #5: Rights, Liberty and Religious Freedom
God and Politics UK has an excellent post outlining the work of the All-Parliamentary Group on International Religious Freedom. So now is a good time to consider what freedom of religion means. While we are fortunate not to face religious persecution in the West, religious groups could face prejudice and discrimination.
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Around the Web#4: Is Free-Will an Illusion?
What exactly is “free-will”? Richard Swinburne explains that usually our desires and beliefs determine what we will do. However, sometimes we need to choose a course of action from among conflicting desires and beliefs:
(Note that Swinburne’s view of free-will is consistent with the Christian doctrine of the Fall, which teaches that our desires and moral beliefs have fallen into disorder.)
However, Sam Harris and other materialists have argued that free will is an illusion.
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