Posted in response to a Facebook post "Religion was invented when the first conman met the first fool"((Mark Twain) .

"I have said to many youngies and oldies over the years I believe there is no such thing as "free will" inside or outside of religion . Never has been and never will be . Mark Twain believed the same

  "there being no such thing as free will in the composition of any human being that ever lived."(Mark Twain)

In any set of ideas religious or secular it is always worth identifying the constraints which are always there that can lead a person to that which delivers what they want to achieve. Two systems of beliefs, religions and liberalism , the religious and secular, do deliver good stuff for humans to the point that in terms of the results they produce can almost be considered the same thing!

Mark Twain believed in choice by the way."