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Would you change your religion in order to marry the person you love?

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indyjoe · 56-60, M
My take on it is if religious belief is more powerful than love to where it dictates whether you marry someone or not. there may just be other and possibly even bigger issues lurking. I knew a family growing up where the husband and wife went to different churches and had different beliefs, yet they managed to have a great family. They decided to compromise and still go to separate churches, and the kids were decided to be raised in one of the churches but still often visited the other. Religion was never an issue in that family. My parents didn't think much of that idea...then again they were members of yet another church and didn't think their churches were right anyway, so their mixing it up in their marriage and with the kids was just "another wrong" that they couldn't do anything about anyway so they just overlooked it. (Now you know why I'm not religious...). It's nice and great if you share the same or similar religious/spiritual beliefs, but it shouldn't be a deterrent to love, marriage, and happiness if you don't.