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Marrying someone with a different religion
Topic Started: Mar 14 2008, 12:30 AM (4,634 Views)
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Since Bible isn't against it, why not?
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Love is what defines the relationship between two people. If there isn't love in that life, then how is there any hope or any way of two people being happy with each other?

Religion isn't a set of boundaries that should define who you should spend the rest of your life with. It should be there to support you, not confine you to who you can see and who you can't.

There are some people that just follow their religion blindly, with absolute fate that it will take them in the right direct, if it finds them the right person, then good for them. But most of the time, that isn't going to happen, so we need religion to allow us to be free with our minds, our heart, and our love.

That's just my two cents.
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Surely religion doesn't matter much if you've gone that far into the relationship to warrant marriage, no?
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I think religion means more than love.
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Trav hit the nail on the head. I agree that it shouldn't really matter when it comes to the love of the other person. The relationship will be complicated. My dad grew up Lutheran and then converted to Catholicism when they got married, but those are pretty close. If the beliefs were too dissimilar they would have to just do their own thing for religion, but not let it interrupt the relationship where it does need to.
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I say love is love, too. If you love each other, you WILL find a way to make it work.

I would guess that a cross like Muslim/Christianity would not naturally occur when two people are so committed to their respective faiths - after all wouldn't that kind of be a dealbreaker in that case?
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I believe that religion shouldn't matter in a relationship, but sadly it often does.
I would have no problem marrying a girl of a different religion, but my father would be pissed.

My question is: Why would God have people different religions fall in love if they shouldn't be together because of religion?
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U_Got_WHAMMED
Apr 15 2008, 04:38 PM
My question is: Why would God have people different religions fall in love if they shouldn't be together because of religion?

Religion isn't a restriction, it's just something that some humans find as a limitation. A "God" didn't create religion and therefore would have no authority or power to control which human belief matches with which. It is entirely up to a person to decide whether or not a religion would fit in with their own.

I personally wouldn't care what religion my partner is. Being agnostic, the only thing I would expect is respect enough to not have the religion forced upon me even in the slightest because I would never accuse her religion of being false. So no, I don't think it should matter. Pride through religion is a pride that never had dignity to begin with.
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Mar 14 2008, 03:42 PM
2nd Corinthians 6:14-18
 
Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness?
Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? Or what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; just as God said,
"I WILL DWELL IN THEM AND WALK AMONG THEM;
AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD, AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE.
Therefore, COME OUT FROM THEIR MIDST AND BE SEPARATE," says the Lord.
"AND DO NOT TOUCH WHAT IS UNCLEAN; And I will welcome you. And I will be a father to you, and you shall be (AX)sons and daughters to Me, Says the Lord Almighty.


That sums it up for me.

This is if you get to the most strict rules. It does say that,but these days..no one's going to actually enforce that. Not most,100 years ago..this would have been obeyed and people would have stuck to similar ones to them selfs.
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Elsbeth
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We don't choose who we love, we just love. Is loving someone of a different religion any different from loving someone of a different race.

Tolerance and respect for all is very much a part of love.
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My mum is Christian, my dad is Atheist.
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Love is love. That's all the matters.
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KayStryker
Mar 16 2008, 05:24 AM
Christians: don't marry a person from another religion, they may turn you away from the light of Jesus.

I'll marry who I want, thank you.
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Mar 16 2008, 05:24 AM
Christians: don't marry a person from another religion, they may turn you away from the light of Jesus.

How can you say that? Are you Jewish or Islamic or Monotheistic? What a sweeping generalization.

Personally, I think you shouldn't say that until you've walked a mile in other people's shoes. It would be just like saying for Hindus not to marry Christians because the Christians would force their beliefs on them.
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