In a multi-faith society, young people of different faiths are going to meet, fall in love and want to marry. This can raise problems because:
- Often both couples must be members of the same religion to have a religious wedding ceremony.
- There is a question of which religion the children of the marriage will be brought up in.
- There is also the problem of what will happen to the couple after death. If the husband is Christian and the wife Hindu, will the husband go to heaven and the wife be reborn?
- The parents and relatives of the couple often feel that they have been betrayed.
Unless these issues are dealt with, then religion itself can be working against community cohesion and promoting conflict and hatred.
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