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They may have chose what they wanted to believe, but in the end when the belief came or went, it was not a conscious choice.
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Sure it was, they were open to the idea of change. You have to be open change on some level, or else you prevent yourself from changing. Ironically, it seems that the most rigid believers who seem to be the most devout or the most anti-religious tend to be the most insecure in their beliefs. If they let themselves get shaken, then they have a lot of choices to make. I've heard some very hollow words come out of both after being challenged in ways that they couldn't account for. But they stuck with it, and I think they actually forced themselves to keep believing... and, after some time passed, they even seemed like their old selves.