“Free will means you can become everything you want!”

Well, no, it doesn’t. The claim that free will means you can achieve almost anything is ridiculous. Free will, as it is usually understood, means that we are responsible for our actions. It does not mean that we are able to turn ourselves into everything we’d like to be. Therefore, claiming that “God gave you free will, now do X and Y” (for example, marry), is pretty much bogus and nonsensical, if not bordering on evil.

Some help from our Catholic reactionary Nicolás Gómez Dávila:

God does not ask for our “cooperation,” but for our humility.

To be an aristocrat is to not believe that everything depends on the will.

To depend solely on God’s will is our true autonomy.

The will is granted to man so that he can refuse to do certain things.

The heart does not rebel against the will of God, but against the “reasons” they dare attribute to it.

The individual today rebels against immutable human nature so that he might refrain from amending his own correctable nature.

Humanizing humanity again will not be an easy task after this long orgy of divinity.