Originally Posted by Starman
Originally Posted by nighthawk
Originally Posted by Starman
the draconian church conveniently shelved the concept of 'free will' and adopted coercion.

Coulda fooled me. Free will is essential to Church theology at least since Aquinas, and is rooted in the ancient Greek philosophers.


so the church stopped operating through various methods of coercion since Aquinas? ...lol

What coercion? Subscribe to doctrine or don't. Anyway coercion doesn't vitiate free will. In Syria, today, people are coerced to death to disavow Christianity and they make a free will decision not to.

The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh

Which explains a lot.