Believers, put yourself in my place.

[Neo-Scholastic]

Please re-read my post carefully. It isn't about people who never thought about the issue. If the doctrines presented to you don't make sense, that is a judgment you have made based on your own reason and experience. People hear ideas and they decide if the ideas make sense or not. They are deliberately taking a stance either "I agree," or "I disagree," or "I don't know". That's a choice.

I understood you completely and I'm still telling you that it is not a choice. I don't choose for it to not make sense to me, it just doesn't make sense to me. I can choose to utter the words, "I disagree," but that's simply a vocalization of my state of mind. I didn't choose to stop believing in god one day, I simply realized that none of it made sense to me.

In other words it was a realization about how my mind works and being honest with myself about that realization. It was not a choice to stop believing. I could not choose for the idea of god to make sense to me now. and I couldn't then.

Thanks for sharing. Fair enough. By that same reasoning could I not similarly say that I did not choose to believe in God; but rather, the philosophy I studied convinced me that He exists? After my studies I did not choose to believe because it just made sense. Seemed obvious actually.