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There are capable persons who are nonresistant nonbelievers

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The Case for Nonresistant Nonbelief

  1. There are former believers who lost their belief through honest inquiry and would welcome its return.
  2. There are people who have never so much as encountered the idea of God.
  3. Honest doubters and isolated nontheists are not resisting a personal relationship with God.
  4. There are capable persons who are nonresistant nonbelievers. from 1, 2, 3

Schellenberg's fuller taxonomy of nonbelief includes reflective former believers, lifelong seekers, converts to nontheistic religions, and isolated nontheists — categories meant to make blaming all nonbelief on resistance implausible.

J. L. Schellenberg, “The Wisdom to Doubt: A Justification of Religious Skepticism”, Cornell University Press, 2007.

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