CelticBear’s Musings

I’ve blogged about the absurdity contradiction and hypocrisy of the Christian idea of “free will” before.
Here’s a video I got from Ex-Christian.Net that does the job quite well. (Although there are a couple of unnecessary curse words, fair warning.)

Addendum: I forgot to mention the other half of the absurd “free will” component of Christian (and possibly Islamic) belief, pushed quite heavily in Rick Warren’s The Purpose Driven Life, and quite rationally examined in Robert M. Price’s The Reason Driven Life, that is:
God is all-knowing. According to the Bible, he knows the past and future all at once. He has a Plan. A Grand Design. God’s Plan for all things including each person.
Well then, how can we possibly have free will if God knows exactly what we’re going to do? Even before we’re born, he knows what we’re going to do and be. How can we possibly chose to not follow God’s Plan when it’s the all-knowing all-powerful God’s Plan? Is it possible for a lowly human to mess up the all-knowing all-powerful Plan of God?! Can we possibly do something the all-knowing God didn’t anticipate or foresee?!
See: Cognitive dissonance for how a person can possibly believe in Christianity & Free Will. In an all-knowing God and his Plan & the concept of free will.