do you feel you can marry someone from another religion............?

Question

though we say we are in modern times a friend of mine fell in love with a muslim first the guy said he was not the type that was very orthodox but then after marriage she was forced to convert to islam and she was told that if she did not the whole family would boycott her and also she could not even tell her parents as her father said that the day she married that boy that was the day she no longer existed as his daughter

she was totally yorchered even though she converted to their religion she was forced to eat meat and mutton even though she was a vegetarian
that is plain torcher

what are your views about that

Answer 1

what happend to your friend was something many women who are from other religions and marry into islam face if you ask me she should have left the husband a long time ago

well im not a person who discriminates on the basis of religion but then i would be careful about choosing my partner especially when he is from another religion

Answer 2

No offence, but your friend probably had an extremely naive view of the muslim culture. It's not just a religion, it's also a race. And no matter how unorthadox they say they are, they take it very seriously and it's usual for the wife to be made to convert. I have many muslim friends and i know that the way they treat girlfriends is quite different from how they treat their eventual wives.

I sympathise with your friend. But in answering your main question, i feel it would be difficult marrying someone from another religion mostly becasue of the fact that he wouldn't understand my beliefs and take part in my religious customs like midnight mass on christmas eve or lighting easter candles at vigil. Him imposing his own religion (or in your friend's case, his culture and lifestyle) on me would be a less important factor. Fundamentally it would be that we would not have a very important thing in common:our values and beliefs. Marriage is hard enough without having that come inbetween!

Answer 3

Whatever it is, if the couple who are leading the life are happy, that's more than enough. I would be least bothered about religion. What if she converts into muslim? the love which was there before marriage will remain the same forever hopefully. No one is born non-vegetarian. If she is feeling comfortable with it, then it's ok. Else she need not eat. They should never force her to do all these things. That's quite bad.

Answer 4

Sure I can !! What has religion got to do with love ? Its a question of respecting each other's belief !! I will never force someone to convert to my religion if I were to marry that person. In anycase all religion preaches love / tolerance & respect. But I am very sad to hear the plight of your friend. I am sure things will change for good. There is always ' day ' after ' night '.

Answer 5

My views, Honestly.

She deserves it. Most everyone that has problems with their marriage deserve it because they made the choice to marry whom they married.

As far as marrying outside of your religion most religions do not allow it. The bible does not allow for Christians to marry outside of Christianity.

The old estimate newish belief, I did not believe require you to eat certain meets. It only restricts what type of meet can be eaten. This is not required for the Christian belief since the crusifiction of Christ. Though the Muslim belief today is totally entirely a different religion than what their fathers in the old testimate had. (boy i caint spell)

Her father should not be rejecting her daughter simply because the guy is Muslim. If he is a terrorist i would understand. but not many muslims are terrorists. The bible does say that a man is to leave his mother and father and cling to hsi wife. the same would be for the woman. but this does NOT mean cut ties as her father is doing. he is biblically and morrally wrong!

Answer 6

As an atheist, I would probably never marry a fundamentalist like the Muslim you described. Their need for conversion or oppression is ridiculous and barbaric. I suggest that she leaves him. Boo on the family and the father. She should get out while she can, and both sides should respect her decisions.

I'm probably open to practitioners of the more liberal forms of religious belief or less strident forms of non-theism, such as contemporary Judaism, Buddhism, or Agnosticism.

Answer 7

Well I don`t know about that because I want to marry a girl that have the same religon as me. Because I am a Christian and I want to marry a Christian girl, I don`t want to marry a Muslim or a buddhist, we have to have the same faith. Because I am very relgious and like the bible says how can talk walk together except they agree? Basically it is saying how can you be with someone if you don`t have the same beleifs. So by me saying that No I would`nt marry someone who was from another religon unless the one I was marrying was willing to change for the better.

Answer 8

No, because my faith forbids it. My personal faith. I don't think I could do it. I am a Christian(DID NOT SAY I WAS PERFECT! FAR FROM IT! Seriously, check out most of my answers...It's gutta city up in here), and almost completely broke up with the man I've been with for 9.5 years, because I hadn't seen any spiritual growth with him, but he has been proving that he is getting his act together, which is why I agreed to marry him. That will be happening soon.

Answer 9

forced and religion should never be used in the same sentence even those they seem to walk hand in hand this day in age. Imagine what it was like 1000 years ago, when we didnt know nearly as much as we do now. People were really impressionable.

Answer 10

I am a catholic married to an atheist. It is possible because love prevails all the time !! It's been 8 years so far and two kids so we are doing "something right" although BEFORE having children, he agreed that I would be raising them catholic. There is just more than meets the eye for us, when it comes to "religion" !