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13156439, would you convert to another religion for love?
Posted by Somnus, Mon May-15-17 06:40 PM
prolly been asked on here a thousand times over but yeah...would ya?
13156441, does a baptist becoming catholic count?
Posted by Buddy_Gilapagos, Mon May-15-17 07:07 PM
Being a baptist didn't have many rules so I didn't have a lot of objections to doing catholic stuff (except those boring services).

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13156447, I mean yeah I guess but that's a pretty easy transition - same god.
Posted by Somnus, Mon May-15-17 07:12 PM
I'm thinking something more along the lines of Jehovah's Witness to Mormon or some shit lol

edit:
maybe that ain't even a good example either...they sorta got the same god as well, right?
13156474, Yes. There is no way I could convert to that bland ass cult of a religion.
Posted by legsdiamond, Mon May-15-17 09:50 PM
How do you go from gospel to that garbage ass singing?
13156448, nope
Posted by justin_scott, Mon May-15-17 07:15 PM
i'm an atheist, and that ain't changing, tho i never mind if my gf is religious, and wouldn't be opposed to an occasional church visit to make a woman happy.
13156449, you wouldn't even pretend in the beginning stages just to get a in...
Posted by Somnus, Mon May-15-17 07:19 PM
I mean you're an atheist wtf does it matter anyways if you fake the funk for the slam dunk?
13156457, depends on how much i gotta pretend
Posted by justin_scott, Mon May-15-17 07:36 PM
if a woman wants me to go to church with her EVERY sunday, nah. i can find women who i won't have to fake anything. but if it's some "fake it around my mom and dad" type of thing...
13156523, I'm Baptist and my wife is Methodist
Posted by legsdiamond, Tue May-16-17 08:00 AM
neither of us are about that church life but we will go to each others church when we visit family.

We even had both preachers from our faiths marry us.

we were officially married in my MIL's house because her grandparents and other relatives were married in that house.

Then we had a wedding ceremony on the beach a few months later. My wife went to church with me the first time and immediately asked if my preacher would marry us for our ceremony cause he keeps it real.
13156525, Man, I don't even consider that any different ( no offense)
Posted by Shogun, Tue May-16-17 08:03 AM
my heathen ass doesn't know a Baptist from a Methodist from a Lutheran, etc.


All Christian sects are pretty much the same in my eyes. JayCee on the cross, read the Good Book, etc.


I'm speaking on like a Christian cat dating a Muslim or a Jewish person, etc. Where you REALLY gotta convert.


13156533, the songs are different..
Posted by legsdiamond, Tue May-16-17 08:15 AM
Methodist feels like Black Catholicism. White fried Chicken. No soul.

When I go my wife's church I'm like "pick up the pace, where is the foot stomp?



13156591, Box wine vs a half pint of Henny. I can dig it.
Posted by Shogun, Tue May-16-17 09:25 AM
>Methodist feels like Black Catholicism. White fried Chicken.
>No soul.
>
>When I go my wife's church I'm like "pick up the pace, where
>is the foot stomp?
>
>
>
>
13156450, ^^What he said^^
Posted by bignick, Mon May-15-17 07:22 PM
That's why I found myself a savage heathen.
13156455, RE: ^^What he said^^
Posted by Somnus, Mon May-15-17 07:30 PM
>That's why I found myself a savage heathen.

they're the best, ain't they?

but I find myself as of late checking for the more pious ladies

need someone to balance out this debaucherous shit i got going on haha


13156456, i'm married, and we keep church and state separate
Posted by GOMEZ, Mon May-15-17 07:35 PM
she goes to church, and I don't. She can take the kids though, so i got Sundays to myself!

I don't even go to make her happy anymore. I went once, and the pastor started talking about the first Thanksgiving telling the bullshit version of how the friendly Indians helped the beautiful Christian pilgrims. FUCK ALL OF THAT. I refuse to indluge that level of delusion.

If my wife needs it, and she made some promises to God or whatever, and that makes her life better... she can do all that. I won't criticize. Plus she's from South America, so good luck trying to talk a So. American out of Jesus.

We respect each other enough not to make a big deal out of it either way.
13156461, no.
Posted by Trinity444, Mon May-15-17 08:03 PM
13156470, would someone who really loves u ask u to convert to their religion?
Posted by thegodcam, Mon May-15-17 09:37 PM
just so u can b with him or her?
13156471, For the love of the religion - yes, but for the love of him? nope
Posted by Belief, Mon May-15-17 09:41 PM
nm



13156503, lol
Posted by Boogie Stimuli, Tue May-16-17 06:50 AM
13156514, I'm gonna say "No", but not to be contrarian. Here's the thing:
Posted by Shogun, Tue May-16-17 07:44 AM
I'm gonna say no, because if I was dating someone, inevitably religious beliefs would come up at some point in the early stages of dating. If she's an X and I'm a Y, and we still found a way to make it work, then obviously it wouldn't really be that big of a deal anyway.
So no, I wouldn't convert. Nor would I expect her to.


13156519, is this blasphemy?
Posted by legsdiamond, Tue May-16-17 07:55 AM
ionno.. I think converting to a whole different religion is some hoe shit.

Nigga, I love you but how the hell am I gonna put your faith/God before mine?

Always feel like those who do it eventually crack under the pressure and end up cheating with someone from their faith.

I'm talking shit but lets be real, you ain't really about that life if a man or woman can change your religion.

Who do you really worship?
13156521, yeah, that's another thing.
Posted by Shogun, Tue May-16-17 07:58 AM
>ionno.. I think converting to a whole different religion is
>some hoe shit.
>
>Nigga, I love you but how the hell am I gonna put your
>faith/God before mine?

exactly. I've had mine all this time.

>>I'm talking shit but lets be real, you ain't really about that
>life if a man or woman can change your religion.
>
>Who do you really worship?


right. It's like saying, I'll worship whoever, just to get laid.


nobody's god is "better" than the next guy's, so I don't see the logic in converting.

13156527, you fell in love with someone from another faith
Posted by legsdiamond, Tue May-16-17 08:06 AM
obvious faith isn't the problem because it helped shape them into who they were.

I get going and participating and even respecting their religion but asking them to convert or converting because it's "easier" on the marriage seems off.

I guess it's cool if you go and realize this religion speaks to you and then you convert on your own.





13156530, exactly.
Posted by Shogun, Tue May-16-17 08:10 AM

>I guess it's cool if you go and realize this religion speaks
>to you and then you convert on your own.
>

Still though, that kinds of seem like you think your religious beliefs are somehow subpar, or inferior to theirs.

(unless they belong to a religion that's less strict than yours, and you like to get it in, LOL)

13156536, if I wasn't Baptist I would convert immediately if I went with a friend
Posted by legsdiamond, Tue May-16-17 08:18 AM
especially if they had food after the service.

Then I would convert back once football season started cause the sermons are long as hell.
13156526, That's the most important question in the post thus far.
Posted by Boogie Stimuli, Tue May-16-17 08:05 AM
>Who do you really worship?

Who and what


13156562, Hmmm... I actually had and am currently having this dilemma...
Posted by Kira, Tue May-16-17 08:44 AM
For me to fully convert to my current religion requires me to embrace all of the culture. Embracing the culture means turning my back on, admitting cultural inferiority, attacking my people, or otherwise doing things that lead to my ancestors in the after life being disappointed with me.

With all that said, I am naturally fully converted at least in conversations with people but friction exists within the culture itself. I could not 100 percent embrace someone that was fully in step with the culture because it's quite divisive, offensive, intolerant, and heavily confrontational in a micro aggressive way.

I am unsure if I could convert to Islam for someone I loved. That would be difficult but my situation is very difficult to deal with.
13156566, you referring to Mormanism, or did you switch it up?
Posted by KiloMcG, Tue May-16-17 08:50 AM
>For me to fully convert to my current religion requires me to
>embrace all of the culture.
13156597, Fam, can you break this down a little for us?
Posted by flipnile, Tue May-16-17 09:27 AM
>For me to fully convert to my current religion requires me to
>embrace all of the culture. Embracing the culture means
>turning my back on, admitting cultural inferiority, attacking
>my people, or otherwise doing things that lead to my ancestors
>in the after life being disappointed with me.

What religion?
13156640, fam, it's like being a jewish Nazi soldier. How in the hell
Posted by legsdiamond, Tue May-16-17 10:12 AM
13156588, Hell naw!
Posted by flipnile, Tue May-16-17 09:17 AM
lol
13156667, Love is fleeting, religion is forever
Posted by j., Tue May-16-17 10:42 AM
so no

Back in college I had a huge crush on this Guyanese Muslim chick
it was weird cuz she was hijabi but we still talked and hung out on campus (I knew and she knew she not supposed to be talking and hanging out with unrelated males but w.e)
but yeah that was going nowhere so we just drifted apart after a while

Then there was a couple of hardcore saved christian women later on
I went to church with one and apparently that was enough to get the panties soon after
the other one got saved AFTER we got together, and that was rough
led to a real bad break up
How you gonna try to change me when you liked me as I was in the beginning?

FOH
13156714, RE: religion is forever
Posted by KiloMcG, Tue May-16-17 11:30 AM
no it's not
13156745, It is if you're religious
Posted by j., Tue May-16-17 12:08 PM
the entire premise of all major world religions rests on the afterlife and what happens after we die.
13156755, ah, gotcha
Posted by KiloMcG, Tue May-16-17 12:23 PM
but if you're one to flip religion like that, it's probably not that serious to you.

but i feel you.
13156704, athiest here and nope
Posted by RobOne4, Tue May-16-17 11:17 AM
i am not joining a religion for anyone. Just like I wouldnt expect her to stop believing to make me happy. You do you and I will do me.
13156713, HELL FUCKING NO. But.....
Posted by double negative, Tue May-16-17 11:28 AM
i'm...i'm agnostic pantheist and my wife is christian

our kids will go to church since I went to church but its been agreed that they will have freedom to choose later on in life


Aint no way I'm changing my core ass beliefs for another person.
13156759, agnostic pantheist? ok
Posted by legsdiamond, Tue May-16-17 12:28 PM
13156827, http://bfy.tw/BpGb
Posted by double negative, Tue May-16-17 01:53 PM
http://bfy.tw/BpGb
13156842, that's what the ok was for bruh
Posted by legsdiamond, Tue May-16-17 02:19 PM
13156725, Nope. I'm Christian....
Posted by The Wordsmith, Tue May-16-17 11:41 AM
....(I don't subscribe to denominations such as Baptist, Methodist, etc.) and there is no way where I would convert to Islam, Satanism, Buddhism (yeah, I know it's not supposed to be a religion but let's face it, there are those who treat it as such), etc, etc.

I don't even subscribe to supposed faiths that are supposed to be Christian based such as Mormonism, Jehovah's Witnesses, etc. I'm not trying to even deal with the partial or non faiths of agnosticism and atheism. Any chick trying to convert me can forget it.



Since 1976
13156749, fuck no. and fuck a chick who'd make that a condition.
Posted by PROMO, Tue May-16-17 12:10 PM
13156757, fucking her is how you wound up in that position tho
Posted by flipnile, Tue May-16-17 12:27 PM
>fuck no. and fuck a chick who'd make that a condition.


You laid up post, thinking about rainbows and unicorns and she starts talking about "when are you coming to the temple/church/mosque? Just for me!"
13156760, right? ain't no damn way I would ask or request that shit
Posted by legsdiamond, Tue May-16-17 12:29 PM
13156784, i'm an atheist, but i've dated "religious" before.
Posted by PROMO, Tue May-16-17 12:52 PM
i was with a Jehovah's Witness for some time. we were definitely headed for a collision course with that conversation because our relationship was completely secret from her family and many of her friends (a couple of her CLOSE friends knew about me). now, she was violating basically all the JW tenets by being with me, fucking me, drinking with me, etc etc etc but we were getting more serious to the point where if it was gonna continue she was gonna HAVE to ask me become a JW or she was going to have be disfellowed (which means you're a pariah in the eyes of the church and your family and friends can't speak to and associate with you as I understand the practice).

fortunately, the relationship ended before we got there.
13156932, No way
Posted by be_yourself, Tue May-16-17 08:26 PM
I have to stay true to myself

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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known - Carl Sagan
13156934, I would do anything for love, but I wont do that
Posted by rdhull, Tue May-16-17 08:27 PM