Archive for April, 2008

Undecided about religion

Hello, my name is Stephanie. I am a sophomore in college, days shy of my 20th birthday. I found your website via StumbleUpon, and I wanted to write to you because I have really begun to have some conflict with my religion. I wasn’t really “raised” anything in articular, since religion was never present in [...]

Posted on April 4, 2008 at 6:56 pm by ideclare · Permalink · One Comment
In: Help

What about free will?

I asked a straight forward question about free will and you’re your answer was Blah Blah Blah. If you don’t think that people have free will then why should anyone be responsible for their actions? If I hit you it’s because I had no choice so you can’t blame me. Sure I can. In fact, [...]

Posted on April 3, 2008 at 4:16 pm by ideclare · Permalink · One Comment
In: Discussion, Misc

What about free will?

If atheism is true and everything is based on cause and effect then how can there be free will? For there to be free will there has to be a soul that isn’t based on natural actions. Free will is an extremely difficult concept, in part because it is so hard to define. Generally, people [...]

Posted on April 2, 2008 at 4:15 pm by ideclare · Permalink · One Comment
In: Discussion, Misc

Hate mail: April Fool

Happy atheist day! And thanks for the reference to the insulting old joke.

Posted on April 1, 2008 at 10:03 am by ideclare · Permalink · 3 Comments
In: Hate mail