Harrold Wallace Rosenthal: "We are what we are! No matter what we join or adopt it doesn't change what we ARE. I am a Jew and nothing can change me because I take up another religion. Such stupidity!" (This concept is verified in Scripture by the rhetorical question: "Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?" And in the parable of the Tares and the Wheat we find that the Tares (the children of the wicked) are utterly destroyed. None are saved from the destroying fire, none are converted into Wheat. God is not going to change the tares into something they never were.)