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[Sheb]

Do we have the same definition of religious?

[scriver]

Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

[Sheb]

Is it clearer if I replace "religious" by "devout" in my previous sentence?

[scriver]

If I am understanding you correctly, the word you are looking for is not "devout" but "dogmatic". Do I understand you correctly?

[Sheb]

Nah, I'm fairly certain "devout" is the world I'm looking for.

[scriver]

"Devout", to me, just means believing in something really much. Which neither following the dogma or not is a tell of.

[Sheb]

adj. de·vout·er, de·vout·est
1.
a. Devoted to a religion or to the fulfillment of religious obligations: a devout Catholic.
b. Characterized by religious devotion or piety: devout observance of the holy days.

I meant the part about religious obligations. My point is that it seems to me the typical western terrorist seems to be a muslim who wasn't much into religion until being radicalized by contact with takfiri preachers.

[scriver]

And my point is that you aren't something before you become it.

[Sheb]

True, but it's interesting that it seems the already devouts are ... "immunized"?

[Zangi]

True, but it's interesting that it seems the already devouts are ... "immunized"?

Not immune, just more resistant. 
You can say that a person who already believes scripture A is less likely to radicalize into a very similar scripture B. 
While someone who knows nothing of both A and B could be radicalized into scripture B because they have no grounding/knowledge from A to tell them that B is very different in whatever ways it is different.

... Something like that.

[martinuzz]

I think pious would be the word you're looking for, not devout.

[Sheb]

Oh, yeah, that's a good one too.

[martinuzz]

You can be a devout muslim and still drink alcohol and eat pig. You cannot be a pious muslim when you drink alcohol and eat pig, that is a contradictio in terminis.
(The devout sinner will just repent a lot)

[Loud Whispers]

Rofl, the French booed a socialist PM who told them to accept terrorist attacks

The enrichment will not be a quiet one it seems

Well he didn't directly say they need to accept them, he just asked them to be realistic and acknowledge that zero risk of terrorism is unachievable.

Yep completely unavoidable, nothing to do with any European policies

[Sheb]

Yeah, right, if only Jon Oliver hadn't push for refugee to come in and then retroactively occurs in France as non-refugees Tunision ten years earlier...