Now, lets pretend the year is 1960, I am standing before you and I simply say ‘interfaith marriage,’ the gasps of horror I would be able to hear from the audience would be so clear i’d be shunned for even thinking it was okay to discuss marriages between people who are of different faiths; such as catholic and jewish. What I said today and what I said in our theoretical 1960 is no different, so what has caused such a major shift in attitudes towards interfaith marriages? the original belief of not accepting interfaith marriage stems from the bible, it states that believers should not be ‘yoked’ with unbelievers. The term yoked refers to two animals walking side by side and pulling a cart or plough. They need to be the same size and strength or the cart would veer off to one side. This image is given to illustrate that God intends believers to marry believers of the same faith and not unbelievers or people of a different faith, in order for them to move in the same
Now, lets pretend the year is 1960, I am standing before you and I simply say ‘interfaith marriage,’ the gasps of horror I would be able to hear from the audience would be so clear i’d be shunned for even thinking it was okay to discuss marriages between people who are of different faiths; such as catholic and jewish. What I said today and what I said in our theoretical 1960 is no different, so what has caused such a major shift in attitudes towards interfaith marriages? the original belief of not accepting interfaith marriage stems from the bible, it states that believers should not be ‘yoked’ with unbelievers. The term yoked refers to two animals walking side by side and pulling a cart or plough. They need to be the same size and strength or the cart would veer off to one side. This image is given to illustrate that God intends believers to marry believers of the same faith and not unbelievers or people of a different faith, in order for them to move in the same