Odd, in places where christianity is a minority, they try to claim free will doesn't exist. I think christians claimed this debate more when they were a majority so they can say you're choosing not to believe. That way they can feel special about them "choosing" to believe and lay blame on "those woman-lusting adultered sinners". But when faced with a different majority, they claim they didn't choose to believe in their god, they found it by way of destiny, a set of events set it all in place.
All that said, belief is a choice. You can't choose to believe unless convinced to believe. I'll believe in Santa if you can convince me and don't expect others to believe if they can't be convinced. I will not feel blame by others if they get butthurt in my non-belief of their god. In my fifteen years of looking, I've never found a god or gods I believe existed. If anything, a god I believed in would accept it's fine not to believe and that sometimes, what's right isn't what seems easy or makes society better, sometimes what makes society better is testing it and testing yourself, going the difficult routes sometimes that angers people. The challenges in life are what make life what it is. Food tastes great because you hunger. Women are great because you lust. Like the Yin/Yang, conflict must exist for us to realize greatness. I question the age and IQ of anyone that still believes in free will. If your "choices" aren't based on your neurology, biology, experiences, conditions, genetics, environment, etc, what are they based on, magic? Some god inserting randomness into our minds to "free" them up from biased decisions to give us true free will? You'd also have to believe in gods then so that's a chicken/egg scenario. It's all bullshit we should've stopped arguing about centuries ago but since we have idiots and religions involving magic, water walking, virgin births, arks with every zoo creature imaginable, demons, angels, miracle healing, hippie jews and all sorts of new age nonsense, we have to put up with this bullshit still.
I'd tip my fedora but it's already tipped because I live on the edge.