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Originally Posted by photon
Some choice are "free will" but really aren't choices at all. Intellectual honesty demands some things be held as true regardless of how much one wills it. No matter how hard I try I cannot be a flat earther, and many atheists and agnostics profess that level of choice. The choice was to accept the evidence and the consequences, the conclusion is no choice at all.. "I didn't change willingly, I went fighting and kicking" is a common refrain for those who have de-converted.
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This is a position brilliantly addressed by Eagleton. You are accepting evidence under a particular set of ideological circumstances, ie. liberal humanism. You also are not addressing other types of evidence presented by theologians such as Thomas Aquineas or Maimonides.