The Case for Nonresistant Nonbelief
- There are former believers who lost their belief through honest inquiry and would welcome its return.
- There are people who have never so much as encountered the idea of God.
- Honest doubters and isolated nontheists are not resisting a personal relationship with God.
- ∴ 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.