Would you oppose a close family member befriending someone not of your religion or beliefs?

Answer 1

No not at all. We have to live in this society and promote tolerance and understanding with one another. Such as with Islam, I make a lot of friends who are not Muslim and it's with this friendship that people notice how peaceful Islam is. And if you can change one persons mind you can change a lot of peoples. Also, We don't usually talk about religion that much while we are together , But when we do we do it with respect and acknowledgment for each other. My friends even fast with me during Ramadan.

Answer 2

Befriending like making friends or befriending like being nice?
I'm okay with it either way, but I can see a few tense moments during which it could get awkward.
Kind of like befriending people of different cultures.
Mostly, I'd just be worried that I'd slip up and accidentally offend them by saying something against their religion or culture.

Answer 3

I would have a difficult time telling them not to be friends with someone of a different belief as they have seen me have friends with people of different beliefs and backgrounds and my telling them not to would make me a hypocrite. I would wlso be showing my family that there is something wrong with this other person or they might get the idea that somehow we were superior to these other people. I would feel I would have taught my family something very wrong and would have done them a disservice.

Answer 4

No not at all. If my family member has a strong personal relationship with God, they would have nothing to fear from a person who did not believe. However I can't say the same for the non believer. As to a different religion...it would not matter. I believe that God accepts all forms of worship...that comes from a persons heart.

Answer 5

No but my ex family would oppose me of befriending someone who doesn't have their religious beliefs.

Answer 6

On the contrary I encourage it..

I am the mother of 3 wonderfully insane children who I encourage to befriend people of different religions, races, beliefs, sexual orientations etc.

Answer 7

I can't imagine why MY beliefs or religion should have ANY bearing on who my close family members become friends with.

Answer 8

I embraced Islam in 1991. My kinfolk is a Catholic/Southern Baptist mixture. the fact that i'm a Muslim or they're Christians isn't an argument that creeps into wide-unfold conversations. according to hazard you're assuming that often is the case yet it is not. We had our discussions and that they weren't happy approximately it, yet we interior the top desperate to conform to disagree and circulate on with our lives. we are kinfolk no remember what. the fact i'm a Muslim has no longer hindered me being a factor of the kinfolk. they arrive over to my domicile, i bypass to theirs, we bypass out as a kinfolk, its no longer an argument.

Answer 9

Of course not. Jesus never did, nor would He ever. He loves us all the same. In His eyes we are all equal. I have friends who believe differently from how I believe but we are friends just the same. I have family members who are non-believers but I still love them. The bible says, do not judge lest you be judged. Isn't that what we would be doing by rejecting non-believers?

Answer 10

Most definitely NOT. I'm a Christian. My parents are not Christian -- my mom is agnostic and my father is Pagan. Our friends and neighbors -- who happen to be the parents of my son's best friend -- are Jewish, meaning that my son's best friend is Jewish. My husband and I both have other friends of various different faiths. I have online contacts that span almost all different types of religion (or lack of).