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Well for one this argument begs the question of the actual existence of hell. By asking if Richard Dawkins is going to go to hell for believing in what he believes, you are automatically presupposing that hell exists.
So my bet is that he probably isn't going to hell considering it doesn't exist... although this is my untested and unproved opinion, but I'm still sticking by it.
If you are a completely irrational thinker and human being, then yeah, I guess you could consider yourself "free". And by "free" I mean free to jump of a bridge suddenly, or shoot your next door neighbor for no apparent reason, or light your house on fire.
But normally, we act in a way that is predetermined. And I mean this in a way as follows "I'm hungry. Therefore I'm going to eat. But I don't want to get fat, so I'm not going to eat anything that has a lot of calories in it" Those could be considered free actions because I made the conscious decision to do them, but if you look just a little deeper than that, each decision was predetermined by the last one.
So if you want to say that none of your actions predetermine the next, you will have to act in a way that is so totally random and hay-wired that you appear crazy to any rational thinker.
Made/born. Take a human and throw them onto a deserted island. What will happen? Will they become a genius? Possibly in their environment they will learn to cope, but will they do the things that we are capable of doing? No. You first have to be exposed to it, so half made half born I say.
Well... it's difficult but I'd have to say Holocaust. Not that it means 9/11 isn't important, it is.. but when it comes to tragedy and which fits the bill... holocaust wins. It wasn't like the holocaust was a one day thing, it happened over years and years.
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