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I believe that it does matter.
Different religions have different beliefs & quite often children brought up in certain religions are enstilled from a very young age to treat woman & people in general differently. I was raised catholic & raised to respect all religions & races, however, I have slowly opened my eyes and realised that their are people that are of a different religion/s that do not respect woman, other religions, races & quite often, themselves.
Therefore, I would listen to your intuition and if that is questioning the religion concept to begin with then it is not right...not right for you as an individual. Not as a follower of any particular religion.

Ren, part of a relationship is being able to work to-wards a common goal, having the same basic values and ideally a system of belief. If you were AOG and he was Catholic your going to be in an up hill battle from the start.

Good luck

i love this question. I'm muslim and my bf is strict orthodox and we somehow manage to work. if we decide to get married though, well its going to be tough when the kids come along. People say you should bring them up with good values and let them choose but kids can't make their minds up about that- its too much for a child! Oh and just for the record- we do respect women ;)

ruru..............which set of values do you bring them up with. You should know a "good" set of values is more to a "religious" person than just being good to one another.

steve- thats much easier in theory than in practice. besides for people who are religious there are lots of ceremonies and practices they want their kids to learn. And those things are taught at a young age, so do we teach them both? Or choose one? Didn't get the last sentance of yours. A good set of values relates to the way they treat themselves and others but that does not necessarily relate to religion- i mean nobody is gonna bring their kids up with a bad set of values now are they? its gonna be difficult either way *shrug*

I'm having a nightmare at the moment because my partners family is catholic and I'm not. The problem doesn't come from my partner himself because he hasn't been to church or anything in years, it comes from his family. Because we've just had a baby they won't leave us alone about getting him christened into the catholic church and they even keep going on about sending him to a catholic school (he's only been born 3 weeks!)His mum keeps saying she's going to take him to church with her and I don't know how to tell her that I don't want her to. I want William to make his own choices on what he believes when he's old enough to do so I don't want any religion to be forced on him or on me. One member of his family is even very angry that we are getting married abroad and not in a catholic church but the catholic church wouldnt marry us anyway!

Will he be Christened at all Samantha? I'm wondering if a Christian christening (specifically non-denomination) would placate her?

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steve- thats much easier in theory than in practice. besides for people who are religious there are lots of ceremonies and practices they want their kids to learn. And those things are taught at a young age, so do we teach them both? Or choose one? Didn't get the last sentance of yours. A good set of values relates to the way they treat themselves and others but that does not necessarily relate to religion- i mean nobody is gonna bring their kids up with a bad set of values now are they? its gonna be difficult either way *shrug*

Sorry, I ment which set of values do you encourage them with or bring them up beleiving, Christian or Muslim??????????? In either religion (correction if I'm wrong) but the man of the house would have the final say no matter what, would that be a fair statment?

I wouldn't say that's true of Christianity.

steve- you are so right! both orthodox and muslims have this whole man-hunter thing going on, but i am a lot more religious than he is (i'm the muslim one, and i'v been to a church more times this year than he has!) so I dunno. I spose we will cross the bridge when we come to it. that or we both give in and become jewish. The religions do have similarities (both are monotheistic and believe in the same prophets and even similar ideologies) but they also have vast differences in practice so its gonna be quite tough. In a perfect world I would like my kids to grow up similar to the way I did but the worlds not perfect now, is it?