I did plenty of research into a LOT of religions, before "settling down" into a nice little celtic Goddess-worshipping faith. And most people I know, who convert, to ANY religion, do so with a better knowlege of the faith than those who were born into it seem to.

Exception being those "recovering alcoholics/drug abusers/convicts" that seem to have no idea what the hell they're talking about. But, I suppose, if it keeps them on the strait and narrow, we can afford to leave them to their ignorance.