What if you have finally found the one that you want to spend the rest of your life with and the obstacle is not even that your family does not like the person you have chosen but that they do not want him or her because he or she is of a different religion? What would you do? What if you cannot be with the one you really love because you both don’t share the same Faith? Would you convert because you love him or her? What if you don’t have any confidence in his or her Faith would you give up the relationship even if you know he or she is the one?

Religion and Love are two things that demand very strong emotions from us and it can be very frustrating when we have to choose one over the other. A women became very perplexed when her partner who she was about to walk down the aisle with suddenly broke the relationship telling her he had just made a commitment to get more serious with his religion and could no longer continue with her excerpt she converts to his demonimation. They are both Christians. He is Pentecostal and she is Catholic .To her, his decision was really insane. Why would he let religion come between their mutual happiness? Dianne another lady in a similar situation is thinking of breaking up her relationship of three years with Usman. She confesses she loves him but cannot see any future to the relationship. Usman’s family are devote Muslim and she can’t see them accepting her and she has no intention of converting to Islam as she has been informed to do if she wanted the relationship to progress to the next level. If there was any chance that they could marry, she didn’t think she would want her children to be anything other than catholic.

Mary another lady says she doesn’t even discuss religion with Henry her boyfriend of many years. They let each other go their separate ways and do what they both have to do when it comes to their spiritual matters. Henry believes in Ifa and she is a Christian he goes to his festivals and consults his priests and she goes to her church. They just decided not to get involved with each other’s religion. She says it has worked so far. She insists people should respect other people’s religious believes or how they see the world or life. Sometimes we set our standards too high and end up being very lonely and miserable she says.

While am not sure that turning a blind eye to anything religious the way Mary is doing in her relationship is good I still think that making religion to matter too much probably is not too good either. I think we are first people before we are Christians or Muslims and whether we are Christians or Muslims we still have lots of things we do in common as humans. Besides the main point of religion is universal love anyway. If we love in actuality as our religions advice there won’t be any reason why anyone should have to be discriminated against because of their religious believes. There are lots of things you can still share with a partner who is not of the same religion as .You can both enrich each other’s lives with the wealth from both religions.


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