If you met someone, and they were caring, respectful, and wished to give you the world, and asked for nothing but your own love in return, would you be willing to marry that person if they had a different religious belief than your own? Would you send them away and keep searching? What if you met a person that was the same religion as you, but only wanted you for your looks, or for your money, would you marry them simply based off religion, even if it meant being unhappy?
2006-11-19 12:04:31 · 10 answers · asked by lavos1412 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Would you try to convert someone you wished to be with if they didn't believe the same way as you? What if they were respectful and honored your decision to believe what you wished, could you do the same to them? Or is religion even a factor to you? Yes, Yes, I know, its a lot of questions, but its all the same topic.
2006-11-19 12:08:57 · update #1
I have dated people from all different religious backgrounds and people with no religion at all. I married someone with different beliefs other than my own. I do not try to change his beliefs and nor does he try to change mine. If you are open-minded you can make a relationship like that work.
2006-11-19 12:15:53 · answer #1 · answered by genaddt 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I am going to marry someone that wants to base their life on God's Word. They need to be caring, respectful, loving, and willing to do what it takes to make a relationship and marriage grow. They do not need to be pretty or drop dead gorgeous. They need to share the same beliefs with me. I am still looking, but I am in no hurry. God will provide the right time and the right person.
2006-11-19 14:19:15 · answer #2 · answered by ironchain15 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not no, but hell no! Religion (at least as God intended it) is not met to divide, but to unite. If your religion doesn't foster union between people who love each other (and even between people in general) it is not worth much anyway.
You are lucky to find a kind, respectful person to share your life with. Together, if you are both kind, respectful and mean to do good everyday of your life, you are closer to God's wishes than any Church.
Don't give religion such power. Churches are man-made, and the leaders of the Churches are only interpreting God's wishes, and putting a lot of subjective interpretations that may be well intentioned, but not always correct.
Go for love with the caring, respectful person, and forget the religious bigot.
Be happy, that will make God happy.
2006-11-19 12:13:45 · answer #3 · answered by newcalalily 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I'd rather be alone than make problems for myself by marrying someone of a different faith, and I'd rather be alone than marrying of the same faith someone I knew from the get-go would make me unhappy! It's tough enough being married, without the added problems of being of a different religion. I am associated with Jehovah's Witnesses, and we spend a great deal of time at our Kingdom Halls, out in field service, and at conventions and assemblies. If you are married to someone who does not have that comittment to God, it's difficult for them to understand it. They may come to resent your time away, and that can cause HUGE problems in your lives together. On the other hand, it can truly be a blessing to have as your partner someone who believes as you do and wants to spend that time in Jehovah's service also with YOU. You pray together, you socialize together, you worship together... that's the way it SHOULD be! As for would I try to convert someone I was married to... the Bible says that mates can be won over without a word, by being the kind of partner that God would have us be. I would never hassel someone about their religion, but I would try my best to be a good example of my religion!
2006-11-19 12:37:06 · answer #4 · answered by themom 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
If or when I find someone who makes me happy it wouldn't matter to me what religion they were just as long as he respected my beliefs and I respected his. Thats all that matters.
2006-11-19 15:00:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the first question, i would not marry someone with different beliefs than myself cuz in the end it would not work in my opinion you must be on the same page if you are serious about your beliefs, and to the second question, no i would not do that either.
2006-11-19 12:08:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, but I would not marry someone based upon their religion.
2006-11-19 12:06:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
no. i am an atheist married to a catholic. we love each other and are very happy.
2006-11-19 12:11:15 · answer #8 · answered by luvbuggies 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't marry anyone--don't believe in it.
2006-11-19 12:10:27 · answer #9 · answered by Maybalee 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no
2006-11-19 12:06:08 · answer #10 · answered by george p 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋