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Atheism/The Problem of Evil: What it Means to You.

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Expert: Harbhajan Singh - 9/26/2005


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1.Does your religion believe in free will (meaning people make their own choices.)?

2.How does your religion define what is Good? …Evil? …Suffering?

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I belong to no religion but my own understanding tells me that

1. People have free choices on an other basic movement in their lives which is determined. For example, you have no choice in going from childhood to youth to middle age to old age. But of course circumscribed by these phases or ages you are free to make your own choices.

2. We are bound by many things including our genetic make ups and our goal is freedom. What helps in your freedom is good what pushes you into slavery is evil.

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I can answer all questions about God, spirituality, even the spirituality of an atheist, about existence in general, about why there is suffering, about why there are two opposite aspects of life like love and hate, pain and pleasure at all levels in life etc etc. I have experienced that God is One like the top of a mountain is One and all disciplines of knowledge inclusing science, philosophy not to talk of mysticism take us to that same One though through different routes and all can eventually take us there as all finally coalesce there. Then there is only One, scientists call it by one name, philosophers by an other and mystics by still an other. So I can answer questions on all aspects of the Game of Life.

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