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overall
The same holds true for any belief in a higher being. Because being a higher being, most people would assume that it controls their lives. So that anything you may do is justifiable. Because ultimately, god is responsible. Not you. Such a deflection is EVIL. I actually met a true believer once who thought that any fucked up thing he did was ok. Because if god didn't want him to be fucked up, he wouldn't have created him to be fucked up.
One doesn't have to believe in god to not believe in free will.
A ball doesn't roll down a hill because of free will, but rather because of gravity.
For all we know, the entire universe and all that occurs within it could be no more than the random confluence of sub-atomic particles taking place in the eternity of space.
That doesn't leave room for a deity, except perhaps as a disinterested creator of sub atomic particles,
and it still doesn't leave room for free will either.
Whether or not a deity exists, fundamentalist believers tend to be the true ultimate evil.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson, 1775
Religion....is the opiate of the people. Karl Marx, 1848
Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose. Kris Kristofferson, 1969
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