Word: mortality
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...uproar over the Paisley parade, a crucial call for an end to sectarian violence went largely ignored. Tomás Cardinal O'Fiaich, Primate of All Ireland, declared flatly that Catholics who cooperate with the I.R.A. are committing a mortal sin. Church officials are now worried that fear of indiscriminate violence by Paisley vigilantes might cast the I.R.A. as a defender of the beleaguered Catholic community...
...Mortal: Because free will means moral responsibility, and moral responsibility is more than I can bear...
...Mortal: And therefore, O God, I pray the, if thou has on ounce of mercy for this thy suffering creature, absolve me for having to have free will...
...Mortal: How can you call that which was forced on me a gift? I have free will, but not of my own choice. I have never freely chosen to have free will. I have to have free will, whether I like...
...discussion continues until the Mortal eventually concedes that he does not want God to remove his free will, even if given the choice. Editor Douglas R. Hofstadter carries the question one step further, raising the issue of whether science has not replaced religious conception of free will with the mighty neuron...