Reply #43: I don't think it has anything to do with changing your mind, per say.

[pegleg]

Certainly people can change their minds. And certainly people do change their religious beliefs, their most deeply held perceptions - but only when they perceive things not to be as they had previously believed. I think that is totally different from changing affiliation to a certain group or religion. Affiliation can be changed even though your beliefs do not change. I could officially become whatever, but that certainly doesn't mean my beliefs will change along with it. I made that change one time, not because someone said so, but because I honestly could do nothing else.