conversion, n.Definitions

Conversion is a lonely experience.

Conversion is a backslider from your own ideas to those of an inferior.

Conversion is the act of submitting to religious doctrine, cured by regular church attendance

Conversion is more often brought about by time than by reason: A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

Conversion is a peculiarly pleasure thing to bring about in another. In causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.

Conversion is, in its essence, a normal adolescent phenomenon, incidental to the passage from the child's small universe to the wider intellectual and spiritual life of maturity.

Conversion is the act of joining our hands to the pierced hand of the crucified Saviour. The new life begins with the taking of Christ's hand, and His taking hold, in infinite love, of our weak hands.

Conversion is the demonic parody of rebirth: plunging into the rapture of social acceptance. Or rather, it's the legal analogy of rebirth, the return to professed belief in order to ground one's individual actions in those of a group.