Eugenio Scalfari explores free will

The founder of the 'Repubblica' daily, Eugenio Scalfari, examines the notion of free will and its place in religion. "Not all religions are based on free will. Yet it is one of the foundations or, better yet, the primary foundation of Catholic thought. If man were not free to choose between Good and Evil, a great many assumptions that constitute the very essence of Christianity would come crashing down. If there were no distinction between Good and Evil, we would not have the concept of sin, nor the ideal of justice - nor, therefore, the notion of universal judgment, the eschatology of salvation, and thus the concepts of morality and grace, the mystery of the Holy Trinity and all the assumptions that that underpin the Church's development such as incarnation, crucifixion, the resurrection of the dead and the Blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist ... Free will is a marvelous invention of a proud human mind, one that is arrogant and centered on itself."

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