to raz

Submitted by love is blind (United States), Jan 13, 2009 at 11:18

Raz

the fact that he puts down your beliefs shows he does not have respect for you or your religion. If he makes you feel bad at all for what you believe or makes you feel as though because you believe in Jesus that you are on the wrong path in life that is FALSE.

Any human being on this earth, who has not died, has no idea what the afterlife will bring. We have faith in something BIGGER and BETTER than who we are and what is of this world in which we live. HOWEVER, any GOD, regardless of HIS name or the way the believer chooses to practice is not relevant. What is relevant is that you practice what you preach. GOD IS GOOD, he teach goodness, respect, forgiveness and generosity. If you are a good person, you will receive good in the afterlife...it is not a competition, whose GOD is greater or better than the other.

Becoming ONE with another simply means that MERGING together of all your qualities, beliefs and assests....if you cannot agree on your religion at this point how do you expect it will get any better in the future and even when having a child?? It will not.

I also did not tell my family when I married my husband in Morocco. I knew that when anyone heard he was Muslim surely their faces would turn white with disbelief and disown me. I knew I was opening myself up to skepticism and criticism. I waited until once I got him here so that my family could meet the person first not base their judgements on the fact that he was Muslim. He is a person.

But Muslims are not just muslim due to Religion, it is cultural too,so that means it is ingrained and embedded in him forever. This is all he knows and will never deviate from it. My husband is not practicing or strict in his religion but his characteristics are similiar to most of the other Muslims. I am lucky that for now he has not forced me to convert. I have had to convert in other ways as his wife but not so much for specific religious reasons.

I think everyone needs to respect others religious preferences as long as those preferences are also respectable. I know for a fact when we have a child he wants to raise our baby Muslim but it will be made clear that the child will also know about the other 1/2 of our religious unit, which is Christianity. It will not be pushed under the rug, neither will the traditions that my other 3 children and myself have been raised with.

right now, after my rude awakenings with a Muslim husband, I have not decided if we ever will have a child..at first, it was no doubt that I would have a child with him, now, it is seriously in question. And after learning about the true meaning of Islam, I have no problem for this child to be raised Muslim but this child is coming from a mother who is NOT Muslim. The child needs to learn the best about the 2.

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