On atheism, determinism must be in control of our lives. There is no rational or logical alternative to that particular world-view.
Yet atheists
often borrow from reality as Christianity describes it, and live
just as though we really do have free will. This despite what leaders
in the atheist community have to say. For example:
“In
a deterministic universe, we understand that a criminal's career is
not a matter of an unconditioned personal choice, but fully a
function of a complex set of conditions, genetic and environmental,
that interact to produce the offender and his proclivities. Had we
been in his shoes in all respects, we too would have followed the
same path, since there is no freely willing self that could have done
otherwise as causality unfolds. There is no kernel of independent
moral agency -- we are not, as philosopher Daniel Dennett puts it,
"moral levitators" that rise above circumstances in our
choices, including choices to rob, rape, or kill.”
Tom
Clark, Director of the Center for Naturalism, in his article
"Maximizing
Liberty"
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