Summer is wedding season. In Canada’s ‘cultural mosaic’, people of different races, religions, and cultures are bound to fall in love with each other. For those of you who are considering matrimonial bonds with a person from a different religion, you probably (or hopefully) already had many talks with your partner regarding the logistics and dynamics of an interfaith marriage.
Religious or not, if you ever wondered what the three monolithic religions say about making babies with people from a different religion, below is an idea. In chronological order of ‘revelation’:
Judaism (Torah/Old Testament):
“You shall not intermarry with them: do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons. For you will turn your children away from Me to worship other gods…” (Deuteronomy 7:1-3).
Christianity (Bible/New Testament):
“Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?” (2 Corinthians 6:14)
Islam (The Quran):
“This day are (all) good things made lawful for you. The food of those who have received the Scripture is lawful for you, and your food is lawful for them. And so are the virtuous women of the believers and the virtuous women of those who received the Scripture before you (lawful for you) when ye give them their marriage portions and live with them in honor, not in fornication, nor taking them as secret concubines. Whoso denieth the faith, his work is vain and he will be among the losers in the Hereafter.” (Al-Ma’dah 5: 5).
Make sure to look up the above verses for contextual accuracy. The topic can be vast.
Are you or someone you know having difficulties with an inter-faith marriage or relationship? Please share your thoughts.
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P. Archer
This is a topic that will probably never be resolved due to peoples bias and prejudice towards other religions and in turn making interfaith marriages difficult.
I personally believe that humans are just animals and I do not believe in religion. Religion to me was just set up to create a civilized society, as well as provide answers that science of the time could not prove or provide. But back to my first point about humans being animals, it is animalistic nature to pro-create with what the individual deems to be the strongest and healthiest member of the opposite sex. If that member should happen to have a different religion then so be it.
People who adhere to these religions with such strong beliefs need to realize that most religions in a broad sence preach the same stuff in order to maintain a civilized society. They also need to realize that, if there is a God, that there is probably only one God, not 15 different ones, just because the messenger might be different (mohamad, jesus, moses etc.) doesn’t mean that there are different entities.
As I have already stated maintaining strong religous beliefs leads to many marital problems, as well as I believe many of the worlds problems, but yet religion has provided the world some benifits such as; to an extent, how to operate in a civilized society. Interfaith marriages; although difficult at times, are a good thing as it most often requires you and the other person to learn about other faiths and hopefully help broading the horizons among families. As an advanced society we need to start understanding and accepting rather then criticizing and rejecting if we are to live happier lives. (Archer 3:16-69) and thats the bottom line
Issmat A.
(Archer 3:16-69)… brilliant.
A quick note: At the time when Judaism was revealed, the other two religions did not exist. References to inter-marriage in the Torah probably relate to marriage with a person from a non-monolithic background. I could not find any verses in the Bible that explicitly mentions Judaism.
The Quran is the only one so far that acknowledges the other two religions in a marriage-related verse by noting “those who received the scripture before you”, scripture here refering to the Bible and the Torah.
I’ll keep looking.
Issmat A.