What do you do if your partner want to change your religion?

Philippines
February 8, 2011 1:00pm CST
My sister's husband is not catholic, it's a protestant that's why he want my sister to change her religion into protestant but she refused it. That's why they were always quarreling about it. How about you? What did you do if it happened to you?
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6 responses
@jujunme (2501)
• United States
8 Feb 11
He has no right to want your sister to change her relgion. How would he like it if she asked him to change his? She has a right to her own beliefs and the religion that offers her whatever she needs to continue believing as she does.
• Philippines
9 Feb 11
Hello jujunme..Before, my brother in law have no rights to my sister but now, they were married, Of course he have right on it, asking to my sister if she like to change her religion. But my sister have different beliefs that's why she refuse it. I hope that my brother in law accept the fact that my sister didn't want to change her religion.That's all.. Well, thanks for sharing your comments with us and have a nice day ahead. Gobless
@jujunme (2501)
• United States
9 Feb 11
Hi caregarden:Yes he can "ask" your sister to change her religion, but he shouldn't expect her to. I also hope he can learn to respect her religous beliefs, since most people's religion are very important to them. Hve a nice day as well.
• Philippines
10 Feb 11
Hello jujunme.You are right. All people must respect to the other people's belief in order them to live happy and no worries in life. My brother in law can ask about my sister's belief but not totally forcing her.. Well, thanks for sharing your comments with us and have a nice day ahead. Godbless
@Ravenladyj (22904)
• United States
9 Feb 11
I would tell him to go suck an egg! My personal spiritual path isnt a fashion statement..its a part of who I am down to my core being so to try and take it off like a winter sweater and pack it away just isnt possible. If it became an issue for him to the point that we argued all the time then thats just sayin to me that he's not the right man for me. My spiritual path is a part of WHO I AM so if he can't respect that and accept that then we werent meant to be.
• Philippines
9 Feb 11
Hello ravenladyj. I understand what you were saying, and all people have right to choose what kind of religion we want. Nobody can force us. Well, thanks for sharing your comments with us and have a nice day ahead. Gobless
• India
2 Jun 12
i will chuck her out.
@sender621 (14894)
• United States
9 Feb 11
Religion is a choice that we must make for ourselves. Our partners should have the courtesy to allow us to make those choices. Religion should never be forced. It has to come from a free will and believing heart.
• Philippines
9 Feb 11
Hello sender..Yeah, better let my sister to choose what she want in faith. A good partners is not a selfish, if my brother in law think good, maybe they find themselves happy even if they were really not compatible in religion.. Well, thanks for sharing your comments with us and have a nice day ahead. Gobless
• Philippines
9 Feb 11
Well, I am a protestant, but what may one person belief, that we must respect. Since birth, I was an active church goers Christian, until i got married. Because of work, and other personal matter, until today, I very often go to church now. We must be open minded about each and every religion, we may have different religion and different beliefs, still we only serve one god, the creator. We may have different holy book or holy bible we read, still if we summarized that, those teaching are all for our own good, but a lot of people miss understood it. If ever that was happen to me, I will give my partner a chance to know, listen, and even go to my partners church, but changing my religion is not a reason for my partner to be mad at all or a big issue that will always be burden with our life. It is not the religion itself that you must be converted in order to save but the people under that religion makes it more complicated because of wrong beliefs. If you are really a religious person, quarrellings with it is not a solution, may be an explanation will do. Protestant and Catholic are not much very different at all, the method and the teaching are rather much the same, but the way they deliver it and some beliefs that make it difficult to bond. Respect is the key to that..If you have plan reading a bible, don't read it verse by verse, read it from the start to the end. Because there are lots of verses that contradict each other. But if you read it as what it was written and read it until the end of it. You will understand what i am trying to say. You cant understand a pocket book novel if you just read the first part or the last part. You may understand why your sister and her husband quarrel because of religion, and yo may explain it to your sister then.
• Philippines
9 Feb 11
Hello neppot..I agree with you, better respect the one's belief to avoid any problems and conflict in there relationship. you are exactly right, its not good to read verse by verse because it have different meaning. I knew it because when I am a teenager before my friend used to teach me how to read and she explained it to me why they have lots of meaning. Of course, RESPECT can help them to understand and love each other.. Well, thanks for sharing your comments with us and have a nice day ahead. Gobless
@acey76 (1276)
• Philippines
8 Feb 11
I cannot transfer to another religion if you don't wan't to have problems like this choose a person with the same belief as you do
• Philippines
9 Feb 11
Hello acey..That's always in my mind that maybe, before my sister marry to this man, she think first about his religion but because of love, she didn't care about it and that makes the problem. I think it's good to explain her husband about this and Hope that he will understand and let my sister choose what she want. Well, thanks for sharing your comments with us and have a nice day ahead. Gobless