Abelard Lindsey
2011-11-01 18:00:02
This is wrong and is one of the problems I have with religion. I consider liberty and individualism to be self-sustaining and self-justifying. The notion that liberty and individualism are not self-justifying, that these must come from an external source (e.g. god) implies that non-freedom is the default condition. I consider freedom to be the default condition and that the burden of argument lies on those who take the opposite view.
I am a free autonomous individual because it is an inherent condition of myself, not that it comes from any external source.
