Alright, let’s get back to “Damascene conversion” the phrase itself. It derives from the story of Saint Paul’s conversion to Christianity. According to legend, Saint Paul was travelling to Damascus to persecute Christians when he was struck down by a blinding light... Soon after, he became himself a follower of Jesus Christ.
And because Saint Paul’s enlightenment, for lack of a better word, occurred on the road to Damascus, people also describe such sudden and total shift in ideas and beliefs as a “road-to-Damascus” experience.
Here are examples.
1. Damascene conversion (Has China had a green ‘Damascene conversion’? Spiked-Online.com, September 23, 2009):
There was something very peculiar about President Hu Jintao of China appearing before the United Nations in New York yesterday to declare his nation’s commitment to cutting its carbon emissions.
Hu is the leader of the most populous and most industrious nation on Earth. He oversees the world’s third largest economy (after the US and Japan) and the world’s largest exporting nation, which produces 60 per cent of the world’s mobile phones, 55 per cent of its DVDs, more than half of its digital cameras, and 75 per cent of its children’s toys. His country has a staggering two trillion dollars in foreign exchange (the largest reserves in the world), and as a result of the industrialization that has taken place over the past 30 years it now has 655 cities (compared with 193 in 1978), a life expectancy of 73.4 years (compared with 36.5 years in 1949, when the People’s Republic of China was established), a population of 1.3 billion (compared with 542 million in 1949), and 20.2 million students in higher education (compared with 117,000 in 1949).
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