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would you change your religious beliefs/the way you pray and worship for your partner?
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- ?Lv 61 decade agoFavorite Answer
No - anyone willing to change their beliefs for their partner doesn't really have any genuine faith.
- 1 decade ago
Personally, I wouldn't change my religious beliefs for my husband. The bible gives us the admonition to 'marry only in the Lord' (1 Corinthians 7:39). So, when I married, I made sure to select someone who shared my faith. Therefore, there would be no necessity for either of us to change since we believe the same thing.
After marriage, we are not just joining households, we joined together in worship as well. If my husband had a certain method or manner of saying his prayers or for his worship, we would discuss both of our methods and decide what we will do and how we will do it together. In that sense, I would change the way I pray or worship for my spouse.
- ?Lv 71 decade ago
No. As much as I love my boyfriend, and we do have different beliefs, I would never change my religious beliefs for him. A person's beliefs are something really personal and nobody has the right to force their beliefs on other people. I think that the mere act of making children that are too young to have their own opinion, believe in something, whether u think that's right or not, is cruel. Even worse since they are not given the freedom to use critical thought to judge in many situations. Your beliefs are strictly personal and if someone doesn't respect that, or even worse wants u to change them, u shouldn't be with them.
- goodluckwithhatLv 71 decade ago
No. I have good examples. My dad is a Protestant, Disciple of Christ, I think, who used to celebrate Orangemen's Day which I believe was a massacre of Catholics. He married my mom, a devout Catholic who, when they met, used to go to Mass everyday and was an altar server in the hospital chapel since there were no boys or men to do it. That was at a time when they had to answer in Latin.
My mother never expected my father to convert. He hadn't practiced in a while so he didn't have a problem raising us Catholic since, as he told me when I asked, "You have to be something and I don't go to church." Since then, with First Communions and weddings and baptisms and the like, he's been in a Catholic church more often than his own but he never did convert. We didn't have crucifixes and the like up around the house until my grandparents died and we kept the ones that were on their caskets because, my mother explained, Protestants don't do that and she was respecting his beliefs. Even when his father died, he was buried from a Catholic church with a good friend, who's a priest, presiding and explaining why he did the things he did, like put a white pall over my grandfather's casket.
I would only change if I believed and I would never force someone to change for me.
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- 1 decade ago
No.
I respect other peoples religions and beliefs but I am religious(not the freaky/forcing my religious beliefs down other people's throats type). I have respect for my religion and im proud of my religion/culture. I would not change it for a partner. I would not really marry anyone of a different religion. Because its just hard...how can i be sure this guy will respect my beliefs and not fight with me? Plus i dont want to fight over what religion our kids will follow. If my partner is willing to let me practice my religion and practice his own peacefully under the same roof...Sure.
Stay true to your beliefs. Dont change them for others.
- HeathenLv 61 decade ago
Nope. We share the same faith.
But if he were to believe in another faith, he could either accept me the way I am, or he could leave. If he wouldn't respect my choice in the matter of my religious beliefs, he probably wouldn't respect any other choice I would make.
Source(s): Norse Heathen - kismet hardyLv 41 decade ago
Faith is a personal thing. I'd like my partner to enjoy the same music and films as I do, that's natural, but I wouldn't force them on her. No one can like or believe something just to please someone else
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Nope, my partner is a Christian and I'm an atheist.
We've been together for 7 years now.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
No, but there is a way to respect your partners faith while preserving youre own.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
No. If I considered my wife to more important than God, that would be idolatry, and the truth of God would not be in me.
She knows this and feels the same way. God is first in our life for both of us.