Odd proposition: if we were actually endowed with free will, then why are most of our major religions running around trying to suck up the approval of the Almighty? Especially if "He" created it as truly free, as a gleeful impulse, an exercise in self-entertainment on the most cosmic scale?

That's like living your whole life trying to earn the approval of a grandfather who died when you were six. Not that folks don't do that to themselves, sure...but is it a rational course? I mean if there's no trust fund?


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