“that does not mean it is not a spiritual or philosophical decision as well’
No, it doesn’t. But that leaves what the non-practical basis was undisclosed, which makes it useless for my purposes.
“I just don’t think that you can remove the spiritual nature of the choice just because it may also be a practical one”
Your going off in the wrong direction. I brought up the fact that conversions seem to me arbitrary, by which I meant spiritually arbitrary. Failing a revelation, that is. Then someone brought up marriage, which may or may not have a spiritual element but is definitely practical. My point wad that it leaves the part important to religion, the how do you know it’s the Truth part, mysterious. I said nothing about there being no spiritual element to marriage conversion.
it seems that rather than pose a question and see where the answer leads you, you feel the need to control the direction of the conversation.
sometimes when we let things go a bit differently than we intended we open our minds a bit
1) catholic marriages always have a spiritual component :) 2. it just may be that sometimes what attracts someone to someone else might just be their catholic faith. so romantic love and hence marriage is a valid answer to your question of spiritual conversion and the drawing together of two people in catholic marriage is indeed a beautiful and spiritually mysterious thing:)