Will you consider marrying someone outside your denomination? yes or no?, your opinion.

Yes better stay off in inter-faith marriage, they will split family as a time pass by. Marry your religion compatible, ok?

jossytech:

YES BETTER STAY OFF IN INTER-FAITH MARRIAGE, THEY WILL SPLIT FAMILY AS A TIME PASS BY
MARRY UR RELIGION COMPATIBLE, OK

And religions are supposed to unite mankind in peace,love and harmony!NOT!

Each religion is designed to unite its followers against followers of all other religions. Religion is divisive.

Despite being an atheist, I can marry a Christian or Muslim lady who doesn't take religion too seriously.

Seun:

Each religion is designed to unite its followers against followers of all other religions. Religion is divisive.

That is not how and why religion was designed. It was to bring the people to a world peace.

But man in his quest to conqer dominate has made it so.

The woman joins the man in which soever religion he belongs.

She becomes a member of that religion by vitue of marriage.

osegwu:

The woman joins the man in which soever religion he belongs.

She becomes a member of that religion by vitue of marriage.

not necessarily true! maybe in the Nigerian context sha, and even then i have seen some that just do their thing

My husband is an Anglican and I am a Roman Catholic and so are the children. Ours was a mixed marrige which is allowed by the catholic church. He goes to his and I take the children to mine. He sometimes comes with us. It has never been a problem in our marriage.

it is all about understandin btw the 2 pple
@ollie , ur husby must be very understandn

someone must be ready to bend for the marrige to work
could be d man or the woman.

No i don't think inter-faith marriages are such a great idea. May seem good at the start but is usually bound to detriorate afterwards especially when children enter the equation. Faith is a huge part of many people's life, having that in common is usually a good basis for a great relationship, although it isn't always the case. However inter-faith marriages can still be viable if the couple are willing to work at it just like the post above (catholics and anglicans don't differ by much well except if you were in Nothern Ireland, then it wouldn't be funny at all).  I wouldn't fancy marrying a woman from another faith.

Seun:

Each religion is designed to unite its followers against followers of all other religions. Religion is divisive.

Despite being an atheist, I can marry a Christian or Muslim lady who doesn't take religion too seriously.

@Seun: are u an atheist?

marriage is about union but also hinged on love & sacrifice. if both partners are of different faith, one should notbe coherced into bulging against their wish. if that mutual understanding cantbe reached , then dont bother!

Dis Guy:

not necessarily true! maybe in the Nigerian context sha, and even then i have seen some that just do their thing

You are right but but in every situation there are always merits

and demerits so also is inter faith marriages.

Considering the problems inherent in inter-religious marriages, I think its better avoided as much as possible.

The kids usually end up confused as to which they should follow and most times end up being like Seun

jidody:

The kids usually end up confused as to which they should follow and most times end up being like Seun

oh no u didn't!

jidody:

The kids usually end up confused as to which they should follow and most times end up being like Seun

This is a good thing. When your parents are not bigots, the result is religious tolerance.

No, no comments, i just cant do it

I personally wouldnt.
In my family i have an auntie that was married to a muslim, she is a christian. There marriage was always in turmoil, they have 2 kids who he made sure where brought up as muslims. To make a long story short, they seperated and divorced. they couldnt see eye to eye.
To each his own, that is what ppl say, some ppl can pull it off, and have a good marriages but i suspect the marjority are like my auntie and her ex, quarreling and then divorcing.

It takes maturity, mutual understanding and Tolerance

Will you consider marrying someone outside your denomination? yes or no?, your opinion.

Yes.

At the risk of seeming to support Seun(which is the last thing I would ever want to do), permit me to say that in this case I think he's right. Perhaps religions weren't originally designed to unite followers of one against the other but we cannot not deny that in most cases now, that is what is happening. Devout Christians firmly believe Muslims will go to hellfire, and vice-versa. Tell me, what could be more divisive than that? As for me, if the guy scales through every other point except religion, believe me sincerely I would disregard that one. What's the guarantee that I'll be happy if I marry someone of the same religion with me?

If the core beliefs of your faith is important to you, it would not even cross your mind to marry someone from another faith.

una dey talk because una never meet the JW's write for further explanations

Being an Atheist is a matter of choice. There is nothing wrong in choosing what u want to believe or not believe, its His choice as long as his an adult and i don't think his  choice is because his is confused. As people especially young people, we need to have an open mind what we don't like or understand we have to tolerate especiaaly as it concerns other peoples lives. Now to the issue, Am also in a very serious relationship with a guy of a different faith and i plan to marry him. interfaith marriages like anyother marriage has its challenges but the answer is to have an open mind not the mind of ' am going to heaven and you are going to hell'. Religion or worshipping God should be about love for your neighbors and even people u don't like. tolerance is the key to living in this world. We are al;l human beings, before we are Muslims, Christians, Atheists, Budists etc.

i'm against interfaith marriages. most of us are not really religious right now(the age we are) because most of us haven't received any really hard knocks from life. i beleive most of us will get much more religious when we get older, and that is where the problems/friction wil start to set in. i want to build a mosque in the compound, you want to hold weekly fellowship; i insist the kids go to quranic school, you insist they go to sunday school. and so on and so forth.

If you let difference in Religion destroy your marriage/relationship, it will. But if you realise that it is the same God that created Xtians, Muslims, Jew, Indu etc you will know that its a mere classification.

Im a practising muslim married to an ordained pastor lady and we actually dated for about 7 years before getting married and funningly religion has not and will not be an issue, as long as we raise the kids in the righteous path to respect people of other colour, faith and denominations especially living in a city like London which is the largest collection of people of different faith and race.

We also have a sign at the door that "Our home welcomes all people colours, races or faith, as long as they have peace and love in their minds"

Let me also add that couples in same faith is not a determinant of the success or failure of the marriage, more than 95% of the divorce in the UK and the US in the last 50 years are between couples of same religion. Its all about how you live your lives and not bare the intricasies of your marriage to the view of the whole world. Most people are tend to give shallow and wrong advises

JJay1:

I'm a practising muslim married to an ordained pastor lady and we actually dated for about 7 years before getting married and funningly religion has not and will not be an issue, as long as we raise the kids in the righteous path to respect people of other colour, faith and denominations especially living in a city like London which is the largest collection of people of different faith and race.

Quite interesting.
However I wonder how a true christian and a devout muslim can live happily together when the christian believes (based on the bible) that her muslim husband is hell-bound. The Muslim believes his christian wife is decieving herself (according to the koran, jesus did not die for her sins) and he still tells her i love you.

na wa o

It would never work!!

@Aisha2:

Hi! Thumbs up to you for deciding to marry that guy. I'm sure you'll be happy with him.

Gamine:

It would never work!!

What will or will not work is relative to the individual. Some people will never learn to solve mathematics, some will. Some people will never learn to tolerate people from other religions, some will. Simple!

I know a coupl that is like this. The hubby is a muslim (not fanatical) and the wife a practising christain. The ylive withput hitches. The man is howver a vry matured person who cannot kill a fly. Interfaith marraiges will be hell for people who have attitude problems my guys.

@ topic,
christainity is being Christlike and not churchlike. Jesus Christ welcomed everybody, tax collectors, prostitutes e.t.c, he even warned his disciples not to call any of his creation unclean. but today most 'christains' have chosen to brand muslims as hell bound, atheist like seun are looked at with a shake of the head, and armoc, eckankar e.t.c are simply cultist. then what makes you a christain if you cant follow Christ's teachings?

a marriage between two people that understand that sitting down side by side in the same church is not a sine qua non to a happy union, and that those kids you seek to protect will oneday go their own way is definitely bound to work. but a marriage based on the church or mosque we attend is bound to fail cos Allah or God is the foundation of the marriage and not the church or mosque.

Yes Jesus Embraced everyone
but he didnt encourage them to continue in their wrong ways
Instead u encourage them in the faith

Allah is not the God i serve as a Christian, so marrying a muslim is outta the deal except he decides to convert,
so no matter the love and understanding,
light nd darkness cannot b together, one has to giv way