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

[John Doe]

free will in the sense of overt volitional acts, apart
from these being "interpreted" by religious
perspectives...meaning, in a secular sense, all humans
in all nations have free will...I think the members of
NATO would concur, but I amy be wrong about that...

--- Keith McMullen <keithsz at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> of course there is no such restriction.....no one
> has suggested that 
> Americans have a corner on sadness....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......Americans believe in
> it big time.....
> 
> On Oct 11, 2005, at 8:15 AM, Rcfchess at aol.com wrote:
> 
> 
> In a message dated 10/11/2005 11:14:21 A.M. Eastern
> Standard Time, 
> keithsz at sbcglobal.net writes:
> > free will has a hefty price tag.....it's why
> Americans are so sad....
> yeah, but free will (as opposed to mere democracy)
> is a human 
> condition, so why should it be restricted to
> Americans...?
> 
> 



	
		
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