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[quote=Anonymous]Actually I agree with you OP. I don't believe in free will, personally (free will doesn't make sense at all), so I have come to a similar conclusion as yours.

I mostly don't think God is nasty, exactly, just seeing all of this from a totally alien perspective. Rape, murder, genocide, families being torn apart - all of that is God's will. But I don't even think this Being sees it as serious. Maybe like a video game.

Here's why I don't believe "all bad things are free will, not God's will":
- why do 10-year olds get terminal cancer?
- we all act from reactive behavior because we're programmed through mental conditioning. It takes YEARS of meditation and journaling to get out of reactive thinking and truly "think freely". And who put our pre-programmed mental patterns into place? Yeah.
- There are personal stories of divine beings like angels intervening in people's lives ALL THE TIME. If "everything is free will" then no way is someone going to experience an angel catching their kid before it dies from a fall or pulling them out of harm's way before a bus hits them (stories like this exist).
- God can't actually have the powers of a God if free will exists. It would mean She/He isn't omnipotent and omniscient.[/quote]

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