Free Will Bullshit

So, today I posted a meme on my FaceBook account.  Nothing special about it, actually a little behind the current events.  It was one of the 'Teaching Jesus' memes (below),

My comment when I posted it was "Explain this shit!"

Now, being the smart-ass that I am, that was actually more of a rhetorical question, because I really didn't think that anyone would be willing to attempt to justify these actions.  Once again, my faith in my fellow man (even a believer) was fallen just a little because someone thought they would enlighten me... :(

Now, there could have been any one of a dozen or so less offensive justifications that this individual could have come back at me with.  You know, 'the devil', or 'they were sinners' or 'their faith just wasn't strong enough', or my favorite "they were being used to bring someone closer to God".

But alas, my FB friend replied with a simple 'Free Will'...

I don't understand how a PERSON can sit there and without choking on whatever bit of dignity or decency they have, and honestly say that what happened to these women was the result of FREE WILL...  This is the same type of rationale that blames the fucking rape victim for being raped.  We have to get out of this type of mentality, or we will self-destruct.

Now, I wasn't one of the women there, and I can't really speak for them and their actions.  However, if I was in their place, I can guaran-fucking-tee you that the first fucking Bible-thumper that tried to explain to me that I should be thankful to God for getting me out of that after 10 years would be eating that same Bible, and shitting out happy-happy-joy-joy verses until Hell froze over.

Free-will?  Yes, we all have it.  We can choose to be as big of assholes as we want to be.  But more importantly, it has become a useful explanation for the religious to 'excuse' things that even they find morally reprehensible, but still can't question their beliefs.  This has become the 'God Done It' patented response when you don't have an answer for it, or don't want to consider the alternative.

That alternative is...  THERE IS NO GOD!

And that's ok.  It really is.

I want this guy that commented to view this story through my eyes.  I bet the view isn't all that different for the most part.

1. Some bad guy kidnaps and rapes 3 women for 10 years.
2. They finally get rescued.
3. There is no god to blame for letting them get raped for 10 years, so there is no god to thank for finally rescuing them after 10 years.
4. Bad guy gets sent to prison.

Ok, so he won't rescue them, which is really fucked up, but ok.  And with the exception of #3, I'm pretty sure most of us can all agree on that.  So, why won't he spare them the torture and suffering and just end their lives?  Would that not be an act of a loving deity?

I used to think that the reason that was an atheist is that I don't believe in the supernatural.  I'm beginning to realize that it's not so much the supernatural that I have trouble swallowing.  It's the BULLSHIT!