(August 22, 2015 at 4:47 am)Stimbo Wrote:(August 21, 2015 at 3:43 pm)Jenny A Wrote: 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.
Sounds like we're all in agreement for once.
Being a skeptic requires little in the way of intellectual effort; believing requires someone to go deeper to identify the reasons behind all that exists.