Rosetree, I didn't actually mean anything bad by saying "brainwashed". I ment it as basically how much choice we have. Are you Christian because you were born in Germany and you were thought to be Christian from day one you were born, or is it really a choice.

I said it in one other post about what makes us good or bad.
Do we choose to be good regardless what religion we are, or because it makes us feel to do selfless act toward a stranger, or are we being good because we are afraid that God will punish us for being bad?? Is it selfless or do we expect to get paid by going to heaven??
What if God comes down and tell us, or some of us that there is no way we are going to heaven?? Would we still be good??

Same as with religions. What makes me a Chirstian, or Jew,or Muslim.
That is the same as people whom you mentioned changed religion. It is just for their good. It's a profit. And those are the worst kind of people.