Marriage between a Jew and Catholic-is it okay?
By rocknrollmom
@rocknrollmom (177)
United States
4 responses
@tarsadawn (350)
• United States
25 Feb 07
I don't see why it should be a problem. You marry the person, not the religion. I think it would be interesting to be able to study different religions and know them first hand. A friend's daughter married a Jewish man. They seem very happy.
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@Modestah (11179)
• United States
25 Feb 07
if one or both of the persons is religously devout, marrying the person is also marrying the religion, because the religion is who they are. I am having a difficult time expressing myself, and for that I apologize. Okay, me for instance - the faith and religion that I practice is every part of me I can not seperate it from myself. My religion is not a hobby or something I do on the side, it is what governs my actions, forms my thoughts, and is a big part of my personality. I do not work my faith around my life, nor my life around my faith - the two are so tightly melded together as to be one.
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@rocknrollmom (177)
• United States
25 Feb 07
You are absolutely right. We ended up getting married by a justice of the peace. In the end, I became Catholic and we are raising our kids Catholic. I just hope my kids marry someone who is good to them and believes in God.
@teison2 (5921)
• Norway
25 Feb 07
i do not see why it would not be possible to marry someone of another religion. How well it will work depends on the couple in question. How open are they, what are their belivfs and values, are they able to treat eachother and eachothers religions with full respect. Higher risk of divorce? they might rubn into a few more challenges than others. But if they enter into the marriage after serious thought and cosideration the marriage may not be at a bigger risk than the next one. the average marriage have about a 50% chance of succeding..
@Modestah (11179)
• United States
25 Feb 07
It depends how important the persons' faith is to them. And not just jewish to catholic, but any interfaith and inter-religious marriage. If the two are devout in their faith there is bound to be conflicts of interest - because the one would find the others devotion an affront to their god in one way or another. Then you add children to the mix - how will they be raised? if the Christian parent believes one must be a Christian, and the non Christian parent believes that one must be a muslim, hindu or other various belief and both parents likely love their child and have a concern for his everlasting life - again conflict. I think an interfaith/inter religious marriage should only occur for grave reasons and with much spiritual counciling.
