"Absolute freedom does not exist; what does exist is the freedom to choose anything you like and then commit yourself to that decision."

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I dared, for the first and last time in my life, to express a theological conclusion: "But how can a necessary being exist totally polluted with the possible? What difference is there, then, between God and primogenial chaos? Isn't affirming God's absolute omnipotence and His absolute freedom with regard to His own choices tantamount to demonstrating that God does not exist?

— Umberto Eco