persuasion and dissuasion can be collective as in religious, ideological, political or social communities, the fact remains that the individual person, in all these communities, has always the freedom of choice and the will of arbitration between belief and disbelief.
The individual is subject during his life to infinite forces of persuasion and dissuasion, but the fact remains that he, or she, must take the final decision of either belief or disbelief in a creator-cause before death strikes.