Can two ppl from different religions get married?

Answer 1

Um, yes.

Answer 2

It depends on what religions. The only rules that I know of are that a muslim woman cannot marry a non muslim man. Functionally though, many hindus and Indians consider it a great shame if one of their kids marries a non-Indian. Many cultures are like that in fact, but to my knowledge the only time a person from one religion cannot marry that of another, is in the example I cited above.

Answer 3

yes. Some parents might not like it is their kid gets married to someone of a different religion if the parents are super religious, but there is no law that says they can't. If two people love each other, they should be able to make it work despite religious differences.

Answer 4

It does work sometimes. If they are both Christians and just different denominations. Sometimes a Bible church or inter denominational church will be the best choice for both partners. But if one partner is a Christian and the other nonChristian that causes problems that usually don't work out too well. The more that can be discussed and decided before marriage the better. In fact go to as may different churches together before marriage as possible. That way you can decide ahead of time which church you both might like. I did something like that-- no regrets.

Answer 5

They can, but why would they? I'll probably get plenty of thumbs down for this, but wouldn't this indicate that they are not really all that devoted to their faith to begin with? That they can accept a partner that does not support their world view, their cosmology, their moral values? Usually in pairings like this, either only one or neither of the couple is very religious and their religion is more like a label of culture rather than a spiritual belief system.

Answer 6

Proud believer

"You must be from a Middle Eastern country where they kill you if you're not Muslim.

Everywhere else we are free to marry whom we want to. "

And you must be fro Hicksville, USA where they dont know diddy about what happens outside their town

There are and have always been millions of non-Muslims living in Muslim countries -unlike Christian nations who slaughetered all their minorities

For many centuries, the Muslims ruled Greece. Did the Greeks become Muslims? Did anyone even try to Islamize them? On the contrary, Christian Greeks held the highest positions in the Ottoman administration. The Bulgarians, Serbs, Romanians, Hungarians and other European nations lived at one time or another under Ottoman rule and clung to their Christian faith. Nobody compelled them to become Muslims and all of them remained devoutly Christian.

THERE IS no evidence whatsoever of any attempt to impose Islam on the Jews. As is well known, under Muslim rule the Jews of Spain enjoyed a bloom the like of which the Jews did not enjoy anywhere else until almost our time. Poets like Yehuda Halevy wrote in Arabic, as did the great Maimonides. In Muslim Spain, Jews were ministers, poets, scientists. In Muslim Toledo, Christian, Jewish and Muslim scholars worked together and translated the ancient Greek philosophical and scientific texts. That was, indeed, the Golden Age. How would this have been possible, had the Prophet decreed the "spreading of the faith by the sword"?

What happened afterwards is even more telling. When the Catholics re-conquered Spain from the Muslims, they instituted a reign of religious terror. The Jews and the Muslims were presented with a cruel choice: to become Christians, to be massacred or to leave. And where did the hundreds of thousand of Jews, who refused to abandon their faith, escape? Almost all of them were received with open arms in the Muslim countries. The Sephardi ("Spanish") Jews settled all over the Muslim world, from Morocco in the west to Iraq in the east, from Bulgaria (then part of the Ottoman Empire) in the north to Sudan in the south. Nowhere were they persecuted. They knew nothing like the tortures of the Inquisition, the flames of the auto-da-fe, the pogroms, the terrible mass-expulsions that took place in almost all Christian countries, up to the Holocaust.

WHY? Because Islam expressly prohibited any persecution of the "peoples of the book". In Islamic society, a special place was reserved for Jews and Christians. They did not enjoy completely equal rights, but almost. They had to pay a special poll-tax, but were exempted from military service--a trade-off that was quite welcome to many Jews. It has been said that Muslim rulers frowned upon any attempt to convert Jews to Islam even by gentle persuasion--because it entailed the loss of taxes.

Every honest Jew who knows the history of his people cannot but feel a deep sense of gratitude to Islam, which has protected the Jews for fifty generations, while the Christian world persecuted the Jews and tried many times "by the sword" to get them to abandon their faith.

http://www.counterpunch.org/avnery09262006.html

Answer 7

YEP! :-D

When they got married, my mom was Catholic & my dad was Methodist. Eventually, (when I was about 5 or 7) my dad did become Catholic, but his Methodist background gives both him AND me insight into the Catholic faith.

On a more personal note...my boyfriend is "atheist with agnostic tendencies." He's open to my views & we respect each other: we have open discussions about faith, religion, & God without any problems.

Merry Christmas!!!

Answer 8

Yes they can. But it will cause problems with how to raise the child and what religion the child should follow.

Answer 9

Yep
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Answer 10

Sure, in a civil (government run) ceremony.
Many churches won't do a church wedding for people of different religions, but that shouldn't stop you. A civil ceremony is just fine.

Answer 11

They can always get married but the real question is how long will they stay married. That depends on how much they accept the other person for who they are.