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07-08-2003, 12:57 PM
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Do animals have free will according to Christians?
Just curious. Christians seem to think that their God made men special by giving them free will. Do they think that animals have free will, too?
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07-08-2003, 01:25 PM
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I am not a Christian and cannot speak for Christians, but one of the (many) things I dislike about Christianity is its relegation of (other) animals to inferior status--in fact to the status of conveniences.
I really don't think humans HAVE free will, but most humans THINK they have free will, which for most practical purposes is the same thing. I suppose if other animals give it any thought, their ideas are similar. Freedom is a state of mind. If you think you have free will, you do. But really, I see the whole free will question as just one more bit of human aggrandizement. And this, I think, comes from insecurity and a (warranted) sense of humans' actual inferiority. |
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