Say, a Buddhist man is in love with a Christian woman, is it possible that their relationship can lead to marriage? Will they face a lot of difficulties? Should they forget their love and find someone of the same faith?
2007-05-20 01:02:37 · 11 answers · asked by En Route 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Marriage should be about love, not religion. If you both can't get past your religious beliefs, you shouldn't get married in the first place. It can work, but you only get out of it what you put into it.
Edit: my fiance is christian and I'm an atheist and we've been together for over 4 years right now. And we are more devoted to each other than to a type of belief.
2007-05-20 01:09:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How faithful are these two people?
If it's "not very" or "sort of," then things should be okay for their love. However, if their *souls* will be okay, that depends.
As a Christian woman who tries to be faithful, i am very wary about entering relationships with non-Christians. There is always the possibility my own faith will be corroded. Of course, it is not necessarily banned in the Bible, but it is warned against.
There are lots of difficulties. Where will you be married, in a Church, or in a Buddhist Temple? What deity will you promise your unity to? And, more importantly, what religion will your children be? Will you go to Church every Sunday or a Buddhist Temple, or will you do both? If so, will you only end up confusing your children so that they cannot decide to pick either faith?
Further, ask yourself, is this *love* love, or hormonal love? When someone meets someone else, often there is a chemical reaction that passes for "love"--and it causes them to focus on their similarities, not on their differences. About three years into marriage, however, these hormones stop. It's then that differences between the people start being magnified. If you can make it through that, you're probably going to be okay. But you don't want anything to end up in a divorce, so truly ask yourself whether you can handle this.
I can't speak to Buddhism, but my message for this "Christian woman" you mention is to read her Bible and pray about it, truly pray, and see what God's answer is. If God is not behind the marriage, nothing can make it succeed.
Look up 1 Corinthians 7 for some of the Christian principles of marriage.
2007-05-20 08:27:01 · answer #2 · answered by Oogglebooggle 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is possible for people of a different faith to marry. What they must address is the difficulty of raising children . Somehow, my experience with friends who entered into marriage with a person of a different faith started out on what they thought was a marriage made in heaven. The euphoria did not last when the first child was born, and without exception every one of them ended in divorce, Holidays became a nightmare; family ties were strained; usually one partner wanted the other to convert to his faith; they could not agree on what was best for the child and ultimately could not bridge the gap,and compromise.It affected their personal relationships as well, sex became a thing of the past; and was used as a weapon instead of an expression of intimacy and love. From what I saw, I would never recommend that people of a different faith marry. There are exceptions I'm sure, but I haven't seen any, nor do I know who ,how and what the compromise cost the one who had to bend or break. Not worth it>
2007-05-20 08:22:58 · answer #3 · answered by Alfie333 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the Buddhist man is a good Buddhist, he can put up with anything that a Christian woman believes.
If a Christian woman is a good Christian, she will not fight her husband over his beliefs.
If the children are exposed to both, they can choose for themselves.
2007-05-20 08:14:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's probably best for a christian to marry a christian; to marry w/in one's own faith. In many interfaith marriages, both partners stop attending church. And there is the issue of how to raise the children. My sister & her husband couldn't agree so the children weren't raised in any religion. That's typical of many interfaith marriages & why they are discouraged by clergy & family.
If a person wants to keep the faith it is probably best to marry a person who shares it.
2007-05-20 08:12:26 · answer #5 · answered by Judith 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand'ring bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me prov'd,
I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd."
2007-05-20 08:13:49 · answer #6 · answered by hairypotto 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is very difficult.
So difficult, the Bible counsels against it.
2 Corinthians 6:14 " . . .Do not become unevenly yoked."
If a couple insist, they are giving their children an extra, and heavy, load to bear.
2007-05-20 08:25:09 · answer #7 · answered by Uncle Thesis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Having a different faith is almost an impossibility to have good intimate relationship. You marriage is doomed to fail.
2007-05-20 08:10:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
buddhist from my experience are very open to other religions. a buddhist can actually practice other religions if he/she wishes. of coarse the other religion prolly have a problem with buddhism.
2007-05-20 08:08:03 · answer #9 · answered by noXizTenC 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
uh'mm does one just not believe
2007-05-20 09:13:34 · answer #10 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋