Love And Religion: The Importance Of Love

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Quite often people claim that love is stronger than the obstacles that get in its way. But can it really compete with something so potent and powerful as religion? Does it not become a problem when your significant other cannot be with you due to the fact that you two do not share the same faith? Some people simply choose to marry a person with the same religious beliefs and others are pressured by their families to do so. Under any of these circumstances, marrying someone with the same religion should not be of maximum importance since everyone is allowed to believe what they want, your life partner must not be chosen by a church or faith, and last but not least, love has no limits. First off, we live in a country whose Constitution states …show more content…

It is up to you to come to that decision for yourself based on your own standards. Perhaps you come from a family who is immensely strict about their faith and they may want to hold you back from marrying someone who does not share the same beliefs as they do. However, your family cannot use religion as an excuse to prevent you from marrying the one you love. “Would God want you to be with someone who shares your religion but you have no love towards them, or with someone you truly love despite of the religious beliefs?”, says Yesenia Marquez. After all, it is your life and at the end of the day it is you who will be content. Moreover, a handful of religions, Jehovah’s Witnesses for example, forbid relationships with individuals of a different faith, but it is important to remember that this may lead a person to withdraw from that religion. In Interfaith Marriage and Religious Commitment among Catholics from the Journal of Marriage and Family, Larry R. Petersen says that “A common contention among sociologists and theologians is that interfaith marriages weaken the religious commitment of the persons who form these unions” (Petersen 725). People out there are willing to abandon their faith just for the sake of being with the person they love and living happily

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