But this is not the only freedom. There's also the freedom to say yes. Sartre thinks we compromise our freedom when we say yes, when we choose to affirm the values we've been taught by our parents, our society, or our Church. So what Sartre means by freedom is very close to what the beatniks of the `50s and the hippies of the `60s called "doing your own thing," and what the Me generation of the `70s called "looking out for No. 1."

He says, "We have learned to take Evil seriously...Evil is not an appearance...Knowing its causes does not dispel it. Evil cannot be redeemed."

Yet he also says that since there is no God and since we therefore create our own values and laws, there really is no evil: "To choose to be this or that is to affirm at the same time the value of what we choose, because we can never choose evil." So Sartre gives both too much reality to evil ("Evil cannot be redeemed") and too little ("We can never choose evil").

This is a great series of clips Efrain, I am enjoying reading them as part of my degree course.

Its also amazing that all of these authors works are available at the mere click of a mouse now for anyone who wants to check them out.

I agree that it is one of the Net benefits. Yet please take a closer look, this site has a specific Agenda, which is not merely educative but rather religious...
as they say of the author: "He is a regular contributor to several Christian publications."

My glad you enjoyed the clips Antara,as I have enjoyed the author's writings myself. I thought I stumbled upon a genius when I first came across his work. I never tire of recommending this particular work: http://www.amazon.com/Refutation-Moral-Relativism-Interviews-Absolutist/dp/0898707315. One of the best modern philosophers in modern time, IMHO.

@ balthazarus

Yet please take a closer look, this site has a specific Agenda, which is not merely educative but rather religious...

What is your point? He is refuting the work of these philosophers who had an agenda themselves, to promote atheism in their own fashion. I believe there is no middle man on the issue of religion. One is either a believer or is not.