Organized Religions Do Not Limit Your Freedom To Choose What To Believe

You have said to me that you are unable to believe in any organized religion because doing so would violates your “freedom to choose what to believe”. There are two ways in which I might attempt to disagree with this claim. One option is to try to show that organized religions do not limit your freedom to choose what to believe. I will not take this route, however, because I agree that organized religions do this. As we will see, this is not a problem for me. I would like to disagree with your claim on the grounds that you are, in fact, capable of doing things which violate your freedom to choose what to believe. I will attempt to reach this goal by pointing out that there are instances in which you willingly, knowingly, and in some cases gladly …show more content…
What you have said, then, is that if performing an action would limit your freedom to choose what you believe, then you are unable to perform that action. This appears to be blatantly false based on the conclusion that we reached in the argument above. We have established above that in any case wherein you receive and process information that is capable of making you to think that something is true, you do not have the ability to choose what you believe. Yet, you routinely put yourself in situations in which you know that you will receive information that is capable of causing you to think that something is true. Additionally, you process this information so as to understand it, sometimes gladly. The easiest example of this is taking classes. You go to class and receive information that is capable of making you think that something is true. You then process that information so as to understand it. If you were truly incapable of doing anything that limits your freedom to choose what you believe, then you would not be able to attend classes. Classes are, of course, only one of many cases in which you willingly limit your freedom to choose what you