You don&#x27;t choose to believe something different. You deliberate on your beliefs. And either find validation or repudiation or somewhere in between. Beliefs are formed over a lifetime and in constant (though perhaps slow motion) flux. Consider (for yourself) your present stance on a non-theological postition. Death penalty, abortion, universal suffrage, the draft, something. Consider what you presently believe and why. Then question it. Research or seek out the opposing view. Hold serious (non-strawman) debates in your own mind on the various potential stances and their rationales. Maybe you come back from this unchanged, changed to an opposing view, or to a middle ground. But you&#x27;ll have arrived their deliberately.<p>That&#x27;s the essence of being a rational human adult. If you can&#x27;t, figure out why. If you won&#x27;t, you&#x27;re still a child.