I am Christian and my wife is Buddhist. She is probably the kindest generous and moral person I know. But she is going to hell and i am going to heaven according to my religion. She refuses to convert. What can I do?
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Typical...
Kind, moral person who does nothing but good deeds will end up in hell regardless due to a different belief or lack of it.
All the while, stupid ignorant fundie somehow thinks he's guaranteed a place in heaven...
Wonderful... [/sarcasm]
Realize if that's the truth, you worship an abusive asshole.
Then ask: Should I be worshiping an abusive asshole?
You could question where the justice is in the kindest, most generous, most moral person you know being sent to Hell, and whether your god's really something that deserves to be worshipped.
Kind of expect you're just going to blame her, though.
"I am Christian and my wife is Buddhist. She is probably the kindest generous and moral person I know. But she is going to hell and i am going to heaven according to my religion. She refuses to convert. What can I do?"
Convert to Buddhism. It's the only reasonable thing to do.
Covert to Buddhism. Also, you could be like me (atheist with a religious person) and just ignore the whole thing. Though they are Wiccan, a religion hardly known for forcing it on others.
Oh, and ask why a moral person is going to hell just because they won't worship your invisible sky daddy. (:
I'm smelling a troll. Why would someone like this marry a Buddhist? Anyway fundies are allowed to divorce their wives if they go "whoring after other gods".
Also a christian would never say a Buddhist is moral.
That's the problem with Christianity: The kindest people outside your religion are eternally damned and the serial killers in your religion who repent get into heaven.
Maybe you should take this as evidence that your religion is really fucked up, confused, and wrong.
Maybe you should convert. I've heard zen is pretty cool.
Wow, this guy got it backwards...
I thought Fundy Law dictated they must convert them BEFORE marriage?
"She is probably the kindest generous and moral person I know. But she is going to hell and i am going to heaven according to my religion"
You might try starting by seeing the bullshit inherent in the system you're describing here.
"She is probably the kindest generous and moral person I know. But she is going to hell and i am going to heaven according to my religion."
And you continue to fail to see how this is indicative of a terrible injustice within your own ideology...typical. Leave your wife alone, and pray that your God isn't the prick that his followers make him out to be. You'll be doing her and everyone like her a big favor.
"What can I do?"
Accept your wife anyway and realize that if there is a God, he'll probably go ahead and let all kind, generous and moral people in regardless of faith, you religious bigot?
How can it be heaven if those you love and respect aren't there? Oh, of course, your god brainwashes them out, so you don't care.
I think that's hell, losing the most important part of one's life for a lobotomised eternity of singing praises to a paranoid jealous god
Apart from non being Christian, what has she done so ugly(as you yourself have answered)that merits going to hell, with the worst of the worst(and at least 2/3 of the humankind)?. Why did you marry her, to begin with?. And by the way, didn't St Paul say that non-Christian spouses are saved?. Read your Bible more often and use common sense.
Burn her at the stake is what would have been done by your ancestors in religion. /sarcasm
Don't be an arrogant twit. There are only 144,000 places in heaven. Hell, you're not even a celebrity, so what chance have YOU got of ever getting into heaven?
Suicide.
It's your only option.
[/obvious sarcasm]
A potential, Biblically-literalist compromise:
The Bible doesn't mention India. Buddha came from India. Therefore India and Buddhism are outside of the province of God. There's a big line running through eastern Iran where God stops caring about stuff (right past Gomer, or Gog or Magog or whatever the hell they thought was over there).
See! She gets enlightenment, you get Heaven. Everybody wins.
What can I do?
Become a Buddhist. That way, if she's right you'll both be fine, and if you're right you'll at least get to spend eternity with your loved one. Or would you rather save your own hide by actually toadying up to your brutish monster of a god, and saying how great he is, even as he tortures your wife?
My question is, if she was a buddist and it was so important to him, why did he marry her?. Moreover, why did she do it too?
The best thing to do here is read the Bible.
The WHOLE Bible.
This will convince you, more than any words she could ever utter, of just how much of a load of dingo's kidneys Christianity is.
You can cease disrupting the peace she'll know that you'll never personally experience in the arms of your divisive, morally bankrupt and emotionally blackmailing faith. Accept or leave; Better yet, ask your god "Why" she's going to hell despite living a peaceable, altruistic life. If the answer's anything but deafening silence or a voice in your head, then feel free to act on it. If not? "God" really ought to get as "he" gives: Utter silence. If she's a true Buddhist, she's far more humanist and loving than you'll ever be for your culture of fear and repression. Don't you dare ruin that.
You could grow the hell up and realize how bad your religion must be, if it would consign a kind and moral person to that imaginary "hell". Which is your religion, an evil one or a stupid fantasy? Nope, there are only two choices. Pick one.
You do kniw you can be a Christian Buddhist, right?
Christianity is a religion, Buddhism is a practice.
“I am Christian and my wife is Buddhist. She is probably the kindest generous and moral person I know. But she is going to hell and i am going to heaven according to my religion. She refuses to convert. What can I do?”
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