on changing religious beliefs
>> Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Fox: “Would you change your religious beliefs to marry the person you love? Why or why not? “
Supsup: ”If I had to change my religious beliefs, I will not marry the person that I love. Because the first person that I love is GOD who created me... And if that person loves me, he should love my God too.”
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Shortly after reading this (yes, because I wasn’t able to catch it on tv) I tweeted “So, if you love the other person.. shouldn't you also love his/her God too?”
Other thoughts that entered my mind were:
* Isn’t that selfish? (that = to require only the other party to do so)
* Is it then a matter of who loves more? (he/she who loves more will be the one to change to prove
his/her eternal love)
* Who said either should change his/her belief?
I don’t think one can completely answer this question in 30 seconds regardless if the person is in the Miss Universe pageant or if someone just randomly asks. One should also have a certain level of self-awareness and spiritual introspection to even have a ‘good enough’ attempt.
This was a topic in a couple of office conversations today. Someone said she is open to it, another said it depends on what the other person’s religion is — she wanted to ‘learn’ about it first and see if it “fits” her. I said, I wouldn’t.
And since it’s already 3am.. I will post my reasons next time. :)
