What is freedom for? And why is it so important that we be allowed to exercise it? Do the choices we make really matter? Ask an atheist and he’ll tell you it’s for actualizing the self in a world without God. Of course, in a godless world why would freedom matter at all? What difference are the choices we make in a world where, as Marx predicted, “everything solid melts into thin air”?
Ah, but that’s just the point, the atheist will say: that we are free, utterly and madly free, to make whatever choices we damn well please. Where there is no God, everything is permitted. Unless, of course, you happen to believe otherwise. For the benighted there must be no freedom. …
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