How popular are cross-religion marriages and what is the general opinion about them?

Question

I am interested to know what do you think of people who would like to get married but both have different religions. How do you think that affects them both and does anything necessarily need to be done (like converting) before they can commit?

Answer 1

How popular are cross-religion marriages and what is the general opinion about them?

Quite popular.

NOT a good idea.

"Unequally Yoked" causes MANY MANY problems.

Answer 2

Well there are a lot of marriages between people who say they are different religions, but to be honest, there are some people who do not even know most of the doctrines of the religion they say they belong to, and do not try to follow those doctrines. For these people their religion is more of a culture than a religion, they like to keep certain traditions but don't fully believe in the teachings of their religion.

Many, even most, religions teach that following God's principles should be the center of your life, the core of it. And of course marriage is when 2 people join their lives together as 1. How can they share a life when they do not center their lives around the same principles? Of course you cannot expect them to agree on every religious issue, but at least they should decide which beliefs they are reasonably sure about and which they consider more open to discussion, and so they can choose a spouse whose beliefs are compatible with theirs on the issues they are more sure on. If they are devout believers in their religion, then chances are they will only be doctrinally compatible with someone of the same religion--and in fact they may even be doctrinally incompatible with many people of the same religion, because of course there are differences in belief even among people in the same congregation.

On the other hand, if they both belong to religions which do not have firmly defined doctrines (some religions don't) then they need not worry about it.

When it comes to converting, you should only convert to another religion if you are really convinced that the new religion is largely correct and true. Converting just to suit your spouse, or converting just because you find the new religion enjoyable, is not a good reason for joining most religions (again, some religions don't have firmly defined doctrines, so for those ones it is probably ok).

Yet there are many people who do indeed convert without having true belief, and because there are so many people who treat their religion as more of a culture than a religion, this kind of conversion is often accepted and encouraged.

Answer 3

According to islamic teaching a muslim do not allow to get married with non muslimah(muslim woman) and a muslimah also can not get married to other religion follower before she/he converted her/his religion into Islam.So in Islam cross religion marriages are not allowed..God in the holy Qur'an stated that a muslim is for muslimah and a muslimah is for muslim only.A muslimah who got married with the other religion follower means she was not a muslimah anymore.She became an unbeliever.
.She will get an unforgiven sin by God.and all of her good doings will be deleted.She will go to hell after her death.In fact a cross religion marriage will have much problems in their lives There are two faiths in a family which will impact their daily life. such as one goes to the church and the one goes to the mosque.If they have children they will confuse who will be a muslim and who will be a christian.There is a disharmony in the family.Bible and Qur'an as a life guidance given by God have so great differences.
They can not let their children choose their own religion because according to the Qur'an,the responsibility of religion education to the children are born by their parents.The children before grown up have to be filled their morals by their parents like writing into the white paper.Their parents will bear the sins of their children before they are grown up.

Answer 4

I marry people often. I refuse, by virtue of the canon laws of my diocese, to marry a man and a woman who are not both baptized and practicing Christians. It can work, don't get me wrong....but I've seen too many times where the spiritual life of one or the other (or the children) becomes a big deal and big problems arise.

Answer 5

If there is one thing I approve about Christianity, it is a man and woman of the same congregation getting married. It's what I call doing things right. But I realize that we are human, after all, and love doesn't always stick to religious boundaries. So much for that cliche.

Answer 6

It's relatively common. My brother & his wife are an interfaith couple. My brother is Christian & his wife is Hindu(they're raising the children in our religion, Christianity).

My next door neighbours are also an interfaith couple. The husband is Muslim & the wife is Buddhist(don't know which religion they are raising the children in).