What about relationships with two people from different religions though?
Many people will tell you that it will never work out and that people tend to take religion very seriously and emotionally and can never negotiate a relationship with someone who shares different religious views. This is simply not true.
Being in a relationship with someone from another religion can help you both grow in the process.
You can learn a lot and understand much more about another person and of course yourself.
So in short, yes, an inter-religious marriage can indeed work out.
The first thing to do is to make sure you save the religious talk until you and her are comfortable with each other and have gotten to know each other more.
You also shouldn’t be too judgmental. If you are dating someone from a different religion, you need to expect that her customs and cultures will be different than yours.
Just as she or he should respect your religion and traditions, you need to have an open mind and respect theirs as well.
That being said, you should not be trying to convince them to join yours or telling them that their religion is wrong. Religion is a belief and if you tell them that something they hold in their hearts is wrong, that can only lead to disaster and upset feelings.
Don’t be a missionary and don’t be arrogant. At the same time, you should focus on similarities between your religions instead of differences. Most importantly, don’t let family and friends have any influence over things.
They might have a stereotype over a certain race or religion, but they do not know the person as you are getting to know them. Only you and you alone should make a final decision.
Religion is a sensitive topic these days, but with growing numbers of inter-religious relationships, many success stories are out there.
No religion will teach anything opposite than to love your partner deeply and treat her or him with a great ordeal of respect, so do just that and let the relationship grow with new experiences.
