Leap of Faith:Marrying outside your religion
 

This is an article from MSNBC.com

*Names have been changed

Lisa Rosen* and Pete Bartolo breathed a joint sigh of relief as they stood under the chuppah at their interfaith wedding. The Jewish-Catholic service, fraught with family conflict during the planning stage, bounced seamlessly back and forth between the rabbi and the priest. In deference to Pete's Catholic heritage, they lit a unity candle; to honor Lisa's faith, Pete followed the Jewish tradition of crushing a small glass with his foot. But by the time the reception began, in-law opposition had reared its head.

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Re: Leap of Faith:Marrying outside your religion
 

More like a leap from faith.

Re: Leap of Faith:Marrying outside your religion
 

I think it can be done. Though I also think it can be unhealthy too. The article talks about a jew and a catholic marrying one another, but I could see it with an Apostolic and a person of another faith. **probably will get torn apart for saying that**

Re: Leap of Faith:Marrying outside your religion
 

Whether it can be done isn't the point. It shouldn't be done. Believers should marry other believers.

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I agree but the point of the article is to show it can be done in a way that it is an easy transition. I am not FOR it but I see how it can be done with some work. It happens everyday.

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The wedding may be an easy transition, but the marriage will not be. Furthermore, how you can raise children in the "admonition of the Lord", if your spouse is a Buddhist?

Re: Leap of Faith:Marrying outside your religion
 

The marriage might be as easy as the wedding or as rough as sand paper it is up the spouses to work it out. As far as raising the kids, assuming that this couple woud have kids my guess is that it would have been discussed before the thoughts of marriage or at least before the "I do's". I would venture to say that if two people of different faiths ( I mean way different faiths i.e. christian and buddist) are probably not so grounded in their faith as you and I might assume. Cause if they were then most that are very grounded would have the religious views or their counterpart be a prerequisite for the any relationship.

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to say it can be done is completely accurate, so long as you are talking about 2 people getting married and staying married without getting a divorce.

But there is no way it can be done in such a way as to leave the person who walks in true faith still connected to that true faith.

One cannot be both in the faith and disobediant to that faith. What does light have to do with darkness? dont be unequally yoked with unbelievers....

it is a dangerous path. There is that chance the unbeliever will come to true faith (it happened with my parents) but there is also that chance the beliver will be turned away.

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Agreed this is my view too

Re: Leap of Faith:Marrying outside your religion
 

So you're ok with an Apostolic marrying a Mormon?