Can we choose what we believe?

Jeff Benson, one of the oldschool members of Growing Up Goddy, has posted an interesting question on his blog: Can we choose what we believe? It has wide-ranging implications for various schools of Christianity — for almost any belief system, really. I know there’s a strong argument to be made that humans respond far less to ‘reason’ than they do emotional cues, but we all want to think that we’ve arrived at our beliefs in a logical, enlightenment-friendly sort of way…