To be honest I don't think any sane adult with an IQ over about 80 truly believes, it's just a coping mechanism. That's why you only see people willing to die en mass for their religion in low IQ shitholes like Africa and the Mid East.

>>29393067
You can't. Belief is not a choice. Being convinced isn't something you do, it's something that happens to you.

You can't choose to believe any more than you can choose to get sick.

>>29393113
Go google Thomas Aquinas for me sweetcheeks. Plenty of smart people believe strongly.

>>29393067
Tip: >>29393113 is retarded.

99% of people who declare themselves atheists are deeply religious. 'I don't believe in God' doesn't mean that those people stop believing in free will, some sort of 'universal consciousness', 'reality being a simulation', 'reality being subjective', and other nonsense. Materialism and parsimony of beliefs is literally a one-in-a-million affair.

>>29393113
You're fucking dumb.

Just because you have to be a retard to believe in mainstream Christianity doesn't mean a belief in god is far fetched.

>>29393178
In fact, saying 'religious people are idiots' directly correlates with being religious.

>>29393067
Be rational. God's existence can neither be proved nor disproved.

The only reasonable stance with the information we have available is agnosticism.

>>29393296
Agnosticism is crypto-theism.

>>29393321
And atheism is a belief.