Sakeenah
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If she was the one fasting why did you have to wake up at 3:30 am to make suhur for her? I would feel bad waking someone up who isn't fasting.
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Differing religious beliefs and dating/marriage
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If she was the one fasting why did you have to wake up at 3:30 am to make suhur for her? I would feel bad waking someone up who isn't fasting.
Akivah
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I have dated many non-Jewish women, back before I knew G-d and became religious. I don't recall religion being an issue in any of those relationships. Certainly if a woman starting talking about idols to me, I wouldn't have attempted to have a relationship with her. It was one thing for me to be a secular Jew, it would have been quite another thing for someone to push their religion on me.
I am currently married to someone with the same religion as me. Like any marriage conflicts arise, but not anything significant regarding religion.
Akivah
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So? Individuals have many different opinions, none of which change the tenets of their religion.
Why is it your problem for other people to have marriage rules or preferences?
Marriage in and of itself is a very specialized form of segregation. It establishes that the people who are married have a closer connection to each other than to others, and it requests / expects the recognition of that privileged connection from the social environment.
While there is no pride to be had in failure to accept people of diverging beliefs into one's own family, I can't very well condemn people for being direct and plain in stating who they expect to feel confortable with.
Nor do I see a valid parallel with racism. There is no valid reason why a person's free space should be informed by ethnical background, but compatibility of ideologies - religious beliefs included - is very much a valid concern for a marriage. And even ultra-orthodox Judaism, far as I know, accepts converts.
It does.
DavidFirth
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I have dated a few ladies who were not Christians. It didn't work out very well at all.
Not all branches of Judaism believe the same things about it.
Who said it was my problem? I'm allowed to have an opinion.
It's similar to racial segregation because the arguments made are similar. They usually come down to concerns over "purity" of culture, tradition and bloodline.
Akivah
Well-Known Member
They may sound similar, but actually looking at them makes me conclude that they are not.
And I disagree.
Augustus
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Mostly because she was a useless cook, and also because I'm such a kind person
(I wasn't kind enough to stay awake while she ate it though
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Tumah
Veteran Member
Perpetuating a antisemitic canard is not going to get you into heaven, right?Break the law, and marry an inferior, dirty gentile? Shame on her, right?
Tumah
Veteran Member
I'm pretty sure that's intended...
Obviously.
I consider admirable your ability to get along so well with people who hold such differing beliefs.
Antisemitic?
Tumah
Veteran Member
Yes, a canard used by antisemites.