The Sadness of America/Intelligent Design (multi-thread)

[Rcfchess at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/11/2005 11:40:48 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
keithsz at sbcglobal.net writes:

Americanism is founded on a 
generous dose of Puritanism and is  therefore a special case of 
Christian predisposition.....the belief in  free will in America is 
largely traceable to the underlying Christian  worldview......free will 
is not a human condition.....free will is a  conceptualization believed 
by some and not by  others


Hah?
"Christian predisposition" would seem to me to be the opposite of free  will, 
not in tune with it.
 
Also, I disagree about free will not being a human condition, unless you  
really believe - which I doubt (?) - in such predisposition. Me, I'm an  
existentialist, though of the spiritual inkling (kind of like Kierkegaard, but  not 
Christian, if that makes any sense...)...
 
RF
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