but your religion does not permit you to marry that person?
2007-11-16 12:57:31 · 26 answers · asked by RQ 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Get married by the justice of the peace! I did and we've been together for going on 20 years.
2007-11-16 13:04:59 · answer #1 · answered by Rev. Kaldea 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a famous author once wrote, "one man's religion is another man's belly laugh".
Personally, it all depends upon how important that religion is in your life. People convert to other religions all the time in order to be married, which personally I think is a mistake. Religious values should never be compromised in order to accomodate another person.
Personally, I'm a Deist so I've got all the bases covered.
2007-11-16 13:05:04 · answer #2 · answered by Rob 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, the way I see it, if your religion has a rule that forbids inter-faith marriage, then you already disregarded the rules when you put yourself in the position of falling in love with someone outside your religion! A rule against marrying outside your religion also includes, by implication if not by outright statement, a rule against dating someone that doesn't share your religion! So if you didn't care enough to follow the rules to prevent this from happening, your religion isn't that important to you anyway. If you're going to subscribe to a particular religion, then you need to follow the rules...if not, you need to leave that religion.
2007-11-16 13:18:54 · answer #3 · answered by KAL 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Leave the religion. It's only mythology after all. If you must follow a religion take care that it does notintrude on your family life, that is the most important asset you have. It should be way ahead of anything alse in your life including religion or employment
2007-11-16 13:01:18 · answer #4 · answered by Nemesis 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
If you are so anally religious that you think that you can't marry a person because of religious incompatibility, you wouldn't fall in love with that person in the first place.
Really.
2007-11-16 13:07:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I fell in love and married someone who wasnt of my "religion". My family wasnt thrilled because we didnt marry in a way they found satisfactory or "heaven bound" but oh well.
Now we have a common faith and spiritual path.
2007-11-16 13:13:41 · answer #6 · answered by ChaosNJoy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In this way, your respective religions make sure that no-one brings foreign data into the system - thereby preserving it, regardless of the pain and suffering caused.
CD
2007-11-16 13:08:07 · answer #7 · answered by Super Atheist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All I ever asked of my children is that they never marry a monotheist. Those with only one god have too limited of a world view. Any polytheist, pantheist, atheist, or agnostic will do nicely.
2007-11-16 13:05:37 · answer #8 · answered by Khimaera 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm married to an athiest..we have our own views about religion and have respectful dialogue...we do not allow it to disrupt our relationship and I have been firm with my family about not trying to "convert" him.
2007-11-16 13:16:13 · answer #9 · answered by Cheryl S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what kind of religion would be so judgmental as to have such a restriction? alot of things get passed down thru the generations, and im afraid ignorance is one of them.
2007-11-16 13:16:22 · answer #10 · answered by chris l 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋