(August 21, 2015 at 3:43 pm)Jenny A Wrote:(August 21, 2015 at 3:25 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: Having faith in something requires more effort than not. You flowed downhill.
That would be the point. No one has to exert effort to maintain belief in demonstrably true things. God is not demonstrably true, and there for belief often requires an effort of will. Realizing that you shouldn't believe in something that requires an effort of will to believe is the first indication of a recovering theist.
Absolutely. Flowing downhill is the natural order.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
