I don't discuss my religious views much, mostly because I've no more answers than anybody else, but I do have the same set of questions as most others. While I've no evidence at all one way or another, everything about my being convinces me that there can be no God, no Heaven or Hell in any way that has been taught to me. I admit to my free will in the sense that I know of no outside force that is making me choose one option over another but I'm not really sure I can call that Free Will exactly, for all of the important "decisions" are not really decisions at all, they are merely directions.
I could very well decide to join a religious organization and/or thought process, I know for instance that there are a large number of Jewish atheists, but something would have to change inside of me for it to be possible for me to decide to believe in God et. al. As much as I want it to be true, it is asking me to ignore a large part of me that I value ... my logic, even my personal integrity ... and that makes no sense at all. To believe in a God I'd have to forsake the very thing He's responsible for creating, my logical mind that sees this as ludicrous.
Now I could easily be wrong about this, I've not one shred of evidence that there isn't a God, it is not possible to produce such evidence without being omniscient which proves the exact opposite (because only a God could know everything). I admit that it is possible to produce evidence of a God, I've not heard of any personally but if a God did exist then a God could ensure that every other creature knows of that God's existence. I further submit that such evidence does not currently exist by virtue of the fact that I can still legitimately question the existence of said God.
But none of that speaks to whether I have free will ... the truth is that there is only one outcome of that contemplation, there is no choice there.
Choice only comes on the fence issues where right/wrong isn't cut and dried ... does one steal to feed one's family? how about punching somebody first in order to steal to feed one's family? what about threatening to kill? or actually doing so? what if the family you stole from need the food as much as yours does? These aren't easy issues, hopefully not scenarios that anybody is faced with, but good illustrations of the point. One of those questions crossed a line in everybody, but it wasn't the same question or the same line. You know which question did it for you, was there any that were really a choice? Is there any free will? Only God knows.
