The enstict of self survival would make someone reject religious beliefs,what good would make to someone say "no i love god" and then be dead by enemy,or to say "i love allah" and then be dead by christian soldiers on the battlefield?All that matters is survival.After that when you are ok,you can kill those who captured you or those that forced you change your beliefs.If you are a dead man you can change nothing.Right?

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My faith isn't strong, I'm not a religious person with strong unyeilding beliefs. I'm what I like to call, 'Christian-Agnostic' but I'm on the verge of being an all out athiest. If I were in a life or death situtation like that I'd convert in a heartbeat, and I believe those reporters did the right thing. For one, they saved their own lives, two it set an example of what anyone should do. Just because you convert doesn't mean you have to actually worship and believe. After I convert, at the soonest opportunity, I'd get the hell out of there.

There are only three things I'm willing to die for, and my religion isn't one of them.

I'm theist, but my beliefs specifically tell me to not convert, so I'd have to say no, painful and sad as it might be. Besides, becoming a martyr would be kinda cool... Although the preferable death would be standing waist-deep in the bodies of your enemies while swinging a ridiculously good-looking sword around. Boromir comes to mind. That is cool.

But If one thinks about it, depending on what religion a theist is a part of, he/she has more reason to not convert than an athiest. A theist would be afraid of God for the decisions he/she would make, but what reason does an atheist have not to convert to save his/her life, the one they'd never get to relive? Not any good, logical reason, I'd have to say. And indeed, unless there is a better deal waiting on the "other side", it would be irrational to not save your skin by converting.

I feel that if someone converts for the wrong reasons (IE. family lineage, fads, to show independence...etc) then I don't they really mean it. If it's a question of life or death though, then those are different circumstances. I would like to say that I would never convert even if there was a gun to my head (or the threat of torture), but it's always easy to talk big when you're sitting at home.....