Would you convert for the person you love?
by 
anonymous for now
ANSWERS: 16
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Used to be, when I was younger and so much more innocently idealistic, that I would not hesitate to say 'SURE!' However, over the years I have learned that there should be a much deeper reason to commit to a faith than trying to please/impress/comfort/whatever another person - and if you cannot honestly committ you are being deceitful in your 'conversion' I could just about respect any religion - but then again some of them would be hard to live with at this stage of my tired old life...
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To quote a certain supersize singer (whom I've never really wanted to quote before now): I would do anything for love, but I won't do that...
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I have been very consistent in my council to others, don't convert to a religion just to please someone else. Convert only because you believe what the religion teaches. It would be rather hypocritical of me to not follow my own advice. . I believe that I am in the right religion. I will not convert to another just to please someone else.
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No my religion is pretty personal to me and to change to please someone else?....not even for love would I do that.
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I'm an atheist, but I'd accept the person I love's beliefs for them, but I havent got strong enough belief to actually convert.
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If it was a truly understanding person, someone who I have real connection with, I shouldn't have to.
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No. I've finally figured out that I don't have to change who I am to get a man.
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I did, Christ.
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No. I'm not going to pretend to change my beliefs for them, and if they love me back, they should accept that. Besides, I would feel bad lying.
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Just because your in love you don't lose your identity which includes faith. And if you did convert that means you never truly believed in what you always thought you did. And possibly what you converted to.
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if the person really love me then he should accept me for who and what i am.
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Someone who truly loved me would never ask me to convert.
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if they try to change me then they're not worth being with. i'm me... simple as... i wouldn't ask someone i loved to change their religion, for example, if i went out with a Jew, or muslim i wouldn't ask them to convert, if i love them, thats that.
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One who would make this a condition to the ongoing relationship does not deserve the one being asked to do so. However, if one encountered another with a different conviction or belief, and they found this when better explained to better align their concepts of spirituality then he/she would automatically suggest the conversion. The true harmony in a disparative religious relationship is borne out in the patience & tolerance one can accept in the non-conformity of others. Stevemac
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As an atheist, I cannot possibly pretend suddenly to believe something which I simply do not believe. I can agree to go to the right chirch/mosque/temple/sysnagogue, eat halal/kosher etc. - but there will be no meaning behind these acts, just doing what my beloved asked of me. I find the concept of conversion difficult to accept. if you truly *believe* something, as opposed to doing it out of convention,surely you cannot change your belief? The very concept of "conversion for a reason" reinforces my view that many religious beliefs are just a matter of group identifiction, habit, and finding a good label for felings for which one does not have words.
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Even if you are totally against it, you will slowly bleed over some after a long period of time, and may not even recognize it.
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