A thing about religious (and other) people and the illusion of free will

[ShinyCrystals]

Since this talks about more than just religious people, I will have to say that I did not know where to properly put this, so if this can and needs to be moved, feel free to move it.

Anyway, we all should know that free will is an illusion, and not a real thing. It is actually the subconscious that does the work that leads to deciding thing for us rather than the conscious mind. Let me post this.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/illusion-...ns-krishna

Neuroscience suggests that much of our mental processing occurs below the surface of conscious awareness. Our brains constantly gather information, process it, and make predictions based on patterns and experiences. These subconscious predictions can influence our behavior, shaping our choices long before we consciously deliberate.

You probably get the idea of what I am talking about, but what does this have to do with religious people, you may ask?

Thing is, I think religious people, as well as politicians and fans of not real and real life things such as real life people, are perfect examples of this. That said, such people will blindly support entities such as God, a politician, or even a celebrity such as an actor/actress despite any bad thing they have done. With that, I think they do not really have free will, mainly because they are dependent, or blindly support people or God even if they do wrong, all based on the predictions based on patterns and experiences that influence behavior and shaping choices before the conscious mind kicks in, just like in the article. I do think that if such people were actually displaying free will, the patterns and experiences, as well as the subconscious, would not affect the process of choosing and they would choose regardless of those things. But, as the subconsciousness, patterns and experiences of people might show, these people end up choosing to worship God or other people, no matter how bad or flawed they actually are. Again, I think that goes to show that such people who support and even defend such people or a deity show well that free will does not exist.

Aside from religion, I must say that religion is another word for belief, and not just worshiping a deity and all things related to deities that definitely do not exist. So while I could be wrong, I think the religion part does and can apply to people who worship, support and defend real life people.

Anyway, speaking of real life people, there is this voice actress who said something along the lines of people being Muslims and maybe from the Middle East are bad people, and that same person said something along the lines of such people wanting to take over the world, which stated controversy about her. This is in relation to the current Israel and Hamas war. She appears to be Jewish, but if racism was not enough, she supported NFTs, was an anti-COVID vaxxer whose suggestion of using alternate medicine lead to the death of a child who may have had COVID, and other things. Yet, some people still defended her and still called her a legend. (The voice actress' name is Tara Strong, by the way)

Also, in regards to religion about God, people blindly go by the rules and everything about God or other deities. They support and defend such things even though all those things religion were made by a man instead of an actual god.

In both the case of the voice actress and God, I think that goes to show that they have no free will because they are not acting free and are dependent on others. Not that free will existed to begin with as neuroscience shows, but to me, they are just not only showing that they have no free will, but free will does not exist overall as neuroscience says.

Well, what do you all think? Feel free to comment or say something about this.