Atheists: Why does the idea of free will trigger Christians so much?

If humans don't have free will then they are not responsible for their sins against God and they don't have a choice about being saved (or not).  Not having freewill also means that punishing others for doing wrong is a relatively pointless endeavor, basically nothing more than getting revenge. 

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I would point out that "trigger" is not correct here and dilutes the real cases when someone is actually triggered. Being uncomfortable, annoyed or mad at something is not what triggered means.

Trigger? Freedom only reminds me of God and bliss.

We have free will to listen to God or the ego.

Atheists acknowledge neither.

When you listen to the ego ,you are triggered with fear, anger, sadness, death and disease. 

When you listen to God, your fear turns to love. false ideas to truth and misery to joy.

It only triggers Protestants because they adhere to the heresies of Luther and Calvin. In his controversy with Erasmus, who defended free will, Luther frankly stated that free will is a fiction, a name which covers no reality, for it is not in man's power to think well or ill, since all events occur by necessity. In reply to Erasmus's "De Libero Arbitrio", he published his own work, "De Servo Arbitrio", glorying in emphasizing man's helplessness and slavery. The predestination of all future human acts by God is so interpreted as to shut out any possibility of freedom. With Calvin, God's preordination is, if possible, even more fatal to free will. Man can perform no sort of good act unless necessitated to it by God's grace which it is impossible for him to resist. It is absurd to speak of the human will "co-operating" with God's grace, for this would imply that man could resist the grace of God. The will of God is the very necessity of things. It is objected that in this case God sometimes imposes impossible commands. Both Calvin and Luther reply that the commands of God show us not what we can do but what we ought to do. In condemnation of these views, the Council of Trent declared that the free will of man, moved and excited by God, can by its consent co-operate with God, Who excites and invites its action; and that it can thereby dispose and prepare itself to obtain the grace of justification. The will can resist grace if it chooses. It is not like a lifeless thing, which remains purely passive. Weakened and diminished by Adam's fall, free will is yet not destroyed in the race 

The teaching of St. Augustine is developed by St. Thomas Aquinas both in theology and philosophy. Will is rational appetite. Man necessarily desires beatitude, but he can freely choose between different forms of it. Free will is simply this elective power. Infinite Good is not visible to the intellect in this life. There are always some drawbacks and deficiencies in every good presented to us. None of them exhausts our intellectual capacity of conceiving the good. Consequently, in deliberate volition, not one of them completely satiates or irresistibly entices the will. In this capability of the intellect for conceiving the universal lies the root of our freedom. But God possesses an infallible knowledge of man's future actions. How is this prevision possible, if man's future acts are not necessary? God does not exist in time. The future and the past are alike ever present to the eternal mind as a man gazing down from a lofty mountain takes in at one momentary glance all the objects which can be apprehended only through a lengthy series of successive experiences by travellers along the winding road beneath, in somewhat similar fashion the intuitive vision of God apprehends simultaneously what is future to us with all it contains. Further, God's omnipotent providence exercises a complete and perfect control over all events that happen, or will happen, in the universe. How is this secured without infringement of man's freedom? Here is the problem which two distinguished schools in the Church--both claiming to represent the teaching, or at any rate the logical development of the teaching of St. Thomas--attempt to solve in different ways. 

Because it stands in direct contradiction to the idea of a god who knows everything and has a contingency plan in place.

Free will doesn't exist.

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Free will is not.

I do NOT have the free will to be thirty once again or even six foot two and 180 pounds.

I do NOT have the free will to have been born as the Sun King in 1638 or to have invented the telephone or to have had Natalie Wood even just once.

Free will is a furphy dreamed up by godsters who lacked the intellect to discern the fact that there are very few things in life that we can actually choose.

We can't choose our parents, colour, sex, orientation, IQ or EQ, status in society, our teachers.

Most of the things we 'can' choose are little more refined than Pavlov's dogs’ responses to his bells.

AND I'll bet the starving-dying little black kid in Darfur KNOWS free-will is a crock.

I'll bet the Jews didn't go to the gas chambers cos they liked the idea of it.

I'll bet all the twins Josef Mengler experimented on didn't have any free will.

You've just never really though any of this stuff through, have you?

W C Easttom: God says, do what you wish, but 

Make the wrong choice and you will be tortured for eternity in hell.

That sir, is not free will.

It would be akin to a man telling his girlfriend...

Do what you wish, but if you choose to leave me

I will track you down and blow your brains out.

When a man says this we call him a psychopath and cry out for his gaoling or death.

When god says the same we call him 'loving' and build churches in his honour. 

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Not being an atheist, maybe I shouldn't answer your question People say that God is in control. Then if that is true, then there can't be any free will. That's like saying God had a hand in all the school shooting, the riots and destroying that is going on now.

Because they don't have free will. They do whatever skydaddy tells them to do or else they go to the horny red guy place

Lol, and the atheist strawman army marches on..........

Probably for the same reason everything here triggers YOU.

You're an angry, dying old codger with no more purpose in life except to rant at Christians for worshipping Trump.

If there is an omnipotent god, then there is no chance at free will.

If there is free will, there is no chance of an omnipotent god.