Need Help Deciphering This

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The talk of believing by our volition seems, then, from one point of view, simply
silly.

I honestly tried, but maybe it is just the lateness of the hour, but I could not get past this sentence without my head hurting. The man who wrote this obviously had no training in completing a sentence or though without running it on so that no one would understand it.

It would take someone a great deal of patience to deal with and understand it.

From that one sentence I quoted, I glean that he relies too much on what others inform him of what to believe. He would rather people not think for themselves, but rather trust those in authority, church authority (I am guessing by the way he writes) to inform us of what to believe.