Question on Religious Conversion

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Lon

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If you are a Southern Baptist & convert to Mormonism have you been RADICALIZED? How about a Methodist converting to Lutheran?
 

Lon said:
If you are a Southern Baptist & convert to Mormonism have you been RADICALIZED? How about a Methodist converting to Lutheran?
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No.

If you were Catholic and converted to Lutheran then you would be RADICALIZED. ;)
 

Some might even say deradicalised.
This is a silly discussion so far.

OK I've resorted to the dictionary

radicalize
ˈradɪklʌɪz/
verb
past tense: radicalized; past participle: radicalized

1.
cause (someone) to become an advocate of radical political or social reform.
"some of those involved had been radicalized by the Vietnam War"

2.
introduce fundamental or far-reaching changes in.
"the push to radicalize 16–19 science education"


No we can go for it, giving reasons.
 
Becoming a Radical- "Radicalized"

"Watch out, they'll be calling you a radical...." They began calling ME that, when I learned to "Obey Little, Resist Much"! imp

 
Radicalized has a very negative connotation, and in present usage means become a participant in a radical form of Islam which advocates violence.

IMO, transferring from one denomination of Christianity to another (such as Lutheran to Catholic) is NOT a conversion, but sort of a lateral move. "Conversion" implies going from one religion to another, like from Catholicism to Judaism.
 
I kind of take the original post as a comment on the news over using a new pet buzzword. But it's not really about religion at all. The Quran does not preach terrorism, quite the opposite. Radicalizing isn't even a proper word...jeez, English Majors Unite to Fight Bastardizing the Language. People being radicalized...no matter using Islam as an excuse to open fire or Christianity as an excuse to open fire it's just a pathetic shorthand for people wanting to kill.

Oy that I got radicalized going from Presbyterian to Judaic beliefs...Mishegas, that someone should accuse me of putting IED's in the bagels
 
fureverywhere said:
I kind of take the original post as a comment on the news over using a new pet buzzword. But it's not really about religion at all. The Quran does not preach terrorism, quite the opposite. Radicalizing isn't even a proper word...jeez, English Majors Unite to Fight Bastardizing the Language. People being radicalized...no matter using Islam as an excuse to open fire or Christianity as an excuse to open fire it's just a pathetic shorthand for people wanting to kill.
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You are right on. I was attempting to pickup on the way the Press is reporting American Citizens with Muslim credentials as being Radicalized and going off to fight the Infidels here and abroad.
 
jujube said:
The Catholics do indeed consider it and call it "conversion"....otherwise I wouldn't have been taking a "Conversion Class" back in the 1960's (which I incidentally got expelled from, but that's another story.)
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Why not relate it to us here? I for one could surely use further enlightenment into these subverse chasms. imp
 
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