The act of changing from one religion (or none) to another.
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Why do Christians seek to convert everyone?
This may touch a nerve, but why do Christians seek to convert everyone, especially people who have no interest in being converted? It always comes off like a drug dealer saying, "Try it, you'll like ...
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Have there been any high-profile converts from Catholicism back to high-church traditions? [closed]
There are several high-profile "defectors" (tongue-in-cheek!) or converts from high-church traditions (such as Anglicanism) to Roman Catholicism. I am thinking in particular of G. K. Chesterton and ...
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Are there any real statistics on how many people fall away?
I recently came across the claim that 80-90% of people who convert to Christianity will eventually revert to their former beliefs/way of life. While I can't speak to the world at large, my experience ...
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Converting to Judaism or Islam vs Trinitarian or Uniterian
If a Christian "converts" to Judaism or Islam (or any of the Abrahamic religions), is he still considered saved as a Christian? What if he/she converted from Trinitarian to Uniterian? This is a ...
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Who are “Born again” Christians?
"Born again" is a term most often attributed to Christians. Yet what exactly does it mean, and what does the the use of the term encompass?
What is a "born again" Christian?
Are they of a specific ...
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Why do Christians need to promote their religion to non-believers? [closed]
Door to door Jehovah's Witnesses / Mormons, people preaching in town centres, posters outside churches, alpha course.
Why do Christians have to promote their beliefs to other people? What difference ...
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How important is a “moment” of conversion?
Some people can specify the day and hour when they became Christians. Others were brought up Christians and say that, though they are Christian now, they cannot specify exactly when the change took ...
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Why did G.K. Chesterton convert to Catholicism?
G.K. Chesterton is one of my favorite authors. On a lot of subjects, his way of looking at things really astonishes me. He can still show things in a fresh perspective, though his books are about a ...
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Why didn't C.S. Lewis convert to Catholicism?
This might seem like a weird question if you're a protestant and really like C.S. Lewis, but as a Catholic, I don't see him as ever espousing particularly non-catholic positions and he is very well ...
