[split] Are Questions About God Important?

[Bucky Ball]

Well it kind of is, and it kind of isn't. A person makes up his or her mind about God early on in life, and this is usually what they stick with for their whole life. However, it is possible to change course.

I think you're right, but I don't want to suggest that this is a conscious, deliberate choice. 

It's not like people write a list of pros and cons on a piece of paper and then do the sums. 

People choose, most likely, based on all kinds of emotional and social causes. And then if they feel like they have to defend themselves they figure out the justifications afterwards. They'll come up with ex post facto reasons that sound good in argument. Whether all of these reasons are good ones or not is a separate question.

As the man said: "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them."

https://sites.pitt.edu/~mthompso/reading...encing.pdf

So no free will then. Faith is due to being a slave of passions.