The faculty of belief

This is something I wanted to answer, which is too long for a comment box, and significant enough to allow a violation of my rule against weekday postings.

Someone who rejoices in the moniker Surly One comments: "If an omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent God exists, and wants me to believe in him, it should be easy for him to make this happen."

Oddly enough, back when I was an atheist, this was my exact conclusion as well. My reasoning forced me to the next logical step, which I hope you...