sonataincminor (sonataincminor) wrote in monte_rpg, @ 2012-05-09 21:39:00 |
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Entry tags: | amdusias, anteros, iris, judas iscariot, váli |
I talked to my parents yesterday, or rather they called me to ask how I was doing. I told them I was doing fine, and told them about finals. After much listening on their part they finally told me the real reason for the call. My uncle, my dad's brother decided to call my parents up on a whim to preach to them. He decided that my parents and I are going to burn in Hell for all eternity, because we don't worship the most glorious Christian deity known as...
FREE WILL.
Blythe knows this about me, but my family and I don't believe in free will. We believe that a person can make a choice, but those choices are always going to be influenced by some sort of outside force. The choices we make are influenced by a number of factors.
I once read a story online in which a half-demon-half-human enters a church, and goes to confession. After a lot of confessing, she asks the priest if he believes that a person can choose who they're born to. The priest says that he did believe that all souls were made in Heaven, and could choose which parents they'd be born to. In the story the woman leaves, and she's upset. As it turned out she was looking for a way to repent, some form of forgiveness, but she was told that she made the choice to be born to a human and demon.
I know the story was fictional, but even so their are some who believe as this priest did. None of us chose to be born, or created. I'm almost willing to bet that not many of you were sitting around as your former selves, and going, "You know what would be so awesome? If I was a human!"
Also case in point about free will vs choice. Free will dictates that I should be able to proclaim that all of the other gods are false, because my faith decrees it so. Reality, however, informs me that this is BS, because there's a lot of you here, and that can't be ignored.
Anyway, after being yelled at by my uncle, my father finally spoke up, and firmly told my uncle. "It's good that you're trying to save us, but if you truly believed in free will you would allow us to use it, without throwing a fit and threatening us."
That shut him up, and now I'm going to stop for now.