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Secondly.... could you both not keep your respective beliefs?
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Well first I would be moving to Egypt. And also he hasn't asked me once to convert. This is something I want and look forward to. He says I don't need to change. I said I want to willingly and outwardly live my life as his Muslim wife and mother to our children. With that I will be adhering to all the Muslim laws and etiquette. I am a strong believer in behavior leading thought. I have a strong feeling my behavior of being a Muslim woman in a Muslim society, I will eventually follow thought wise. He understands that my actual belief of God and that struggle is privately my own.
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I could not imagine 'throwing a switch' a deciding to believe again?
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Again it won't be a switch. I guess it's like giving up pork. Living in a community that doesn't offer it I will simply adjust. Again, this is something I want to do. I have personal reasons.
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By converting to Islam, do you have to accept certain articles of faith?
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I will have to follow the five pillars of faith. Other than that I will know as I start to begin visits to a local Islamic learning center here with a Mosque. Again I will adhere outwardly until my inner self comes to an agreement, whatever that will be. But I want to honor Lecter by giving him something that will make both of us happy.
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If so, do you truly believe in them now and reject your former faith?
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Pragmatically I choose a faith on what it offers me. Satanism for now offers me what I need as a single woman. Now that I have a significant other, I want to open up to this new faith. Honestly I have found it to be a very inviting faith. I feel I will have this certain freedom in my anonymity and privacy and etiquette of a married woman. What this will offer me is something I have been searching for. I also find Islam to be a religion of thinking and reason. It encourages me to ask all these questions so that I am not following blindly and am actually understanding faith. Catholicism and Christianity never gave me this. They pretty much told me to shut up and don't ask.
I don't think I am rejecting anything. I am evolving. Faith is a living thing. I evolve as it evolves. I have always made a consious decision to move towards something as opposed to running away from something.
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If not, will your future husband and his bretheren be offended if you convert without accepting their beliefs?
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I believe Lecter would be happy with me converting for my own reasons. As for his family? My faith is my own private business.
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Is one measure of how much we love each other going to be how much one of us is willing to compromise on faith?
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Not always. But for people like us, it is a big question.