Are You Trying to Redeem People From These Forces?

Part of it is a devotion to a particular understanding of freedom and free will. And that's deeply tied into Western theological notions of guilt and choice and accountability. The more you say a person's choices are affected by things greater than them, right, forces sort of above them, then that if you have those means well that makes them less accountable for their actions. But we're about trying to help redeem people from those forces. Right. Christianity has always taught this. There are these forces abroad in the world who enslaved people. People get locked into and controlled by these passions and we're trying to free them from that. Not hold them accountable for their action, like in this guilt and punishment

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