2006-10-25 16:36:56 · 5 answers · asked by alexjem 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
if love and religion can coexist in a relationship? example a Christian-Muslim relationship.. thanks for correcting this question.
2006-10-25 16:55:57 · update #1
If you are asking if love and religion can coexist peacefully, then I would say that they must. Let me explain. Everyone has a religion, even those of you that say you are not religious. For some, religion is spending significant time on God and going to church. For others, it's spending significant time on some random activity that they love, such as working on cars, shopping five hours daily or worshipping the media. Either way, spending the amount of energy on something like that is spending time religiously. At the same time, it is doing something that you truly desire and enjoy pursuing. Acting on this is loving yourself, no matter how you like to look at it. It is acting on something for a benefit. In this sense, being religious, in which ever way one chooses, is love at the same time. I'd like to explain further, but I've probably already lost your attention. If anyone disagrees with me, then maybe they'll at least use the term "religiously" a little more carefully when they talk about "practicing an instrument religiously."
Besides, love IS a religion.
2006-10-25 17:10:41 · answer #1 · answered by Jack 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe rephrasing the question as something that makes sense will help people answer it. Are you asking if love and religion can coexist in a relationship? Or, are you asking if people from different religious backgrounds can forge a lasting, loving relationship? I don't really understand what you're going for here.
2006-10-25 23:45:28 · answer #2 · answered by Been There 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religion is a collective thought or belief. Love is an individual feeling .religion is an imposition . Love is self actualising. Religion is to be followed . Love is to be experienced
All persons capable of loving can influence a religion .
2006-10-25 23:54:55 · answer #3 · answered by YD 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is God
(1Jo 4:8)He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Religion is giving to the poor, the homeless, and the orphans.
(Psa 82:3) Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
(Jam 1:27) Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.
2006-10-25 23:59:59 · answer #4 · answered by Michael JENKINS 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Looking at religious wars, persecution and bigotry, it doesn't seem so.
2006-10-25 23:45:23 · answer #5 · answered by ElOsoBravo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋