Convertion an Intellectual Transformation
Conversion: An Intellectual Transformation
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CONVERSION: AN INTELLECTUAL
TRANSFORMATION
When an individual belonging to one religious
group joins another religious group after converting
to that religion that, in religious terminology, is
called proselytism. But this is a limited concept of
conversion, which needs to be viewed in a more
scientific light.
The religious view of conversion relates only to
religious tradition. In this respect it is relatively
limited in its spectrum. The scientific outlook, on
the contrary, is much broader in scope, being based
on the eternal principles of nature itself. Although it
would be proper to say that, in the religious context
conversion for human beings is a matter of choice,
in the scientific sense, this is not so. It is an eternal
principle of life, in exactly the same way as the laws
of nature have the status of being immutable. We
are compelled to accept the principle of conversion,
just as we are compelled to accept the morning
following the evening, or one season coming after
another.
