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I'm sorry, I can't [[Describe Topic Here|describe this topic here]]. It's '''Against My Religion'''.
 
Being tolerant of one another's religious beliefs is very important, so if someone says something is against his/hertheir religion, other characters think they can't make them do it. Now that person might be telling [[Blatant Lies]] to get out of doing that thing, but it might be the truth. Other characters are likely not going to press that character about it.
 
Comes up a lot with someone [[Raised Catholic]], [[Good Girls Avoid Abortion]] in particular. Of course, in [[Real Life]], many practices considered common by the majority may be expressly forbidden to people of a particular religious group.
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* In ''[[Pokémon: The Abridged Series]]'', Pikachu refuses to go to the Poké Ball because of this.
 
== Films -- Live-ActionFilm ==
* ''[[Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves]]'' featured Azeem, a Muslim who was forbidden by his faith from drinking alcohol. Friar Tuck doesn't have this limitation.
{{quote|'''Friar Tuck:''' Let us open a bottle and do our best to save each other's souls.
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== Literature ==
* In the ''[[Discworld]]'' book ''[[Discworld/Thief of Time|Thief of Time]]'', the Auditors are disguised as humans, and avoid being forced to drink tea (where things like eating are harmful to them [it's a long story]) with this trope. The Auditors have noted that people will justify the most extreme behavior on the same basis, so by comparison refusing to drink tea shouldn't raise any eyebrows.
** Moist von Lipwig uses it in ''[[Discworld/Going Postal (Discworld)|Going Postal]]'' to avoid getting his picture taken, out of fear his un-memorable appearance, and through it the secret of his criminal past, won't survive a picture. ''[[Discworld/Making Money|Making Money]]'' proves him right.
** In the ''Assassins' Guild Yearbook'', a long list of [[Loophole Abuse|loophole]]-filling rules to prevent ''any'' attempt by students to have a pet crocodile is eventually forced to concede that none of these rules apply to worshipersworshippers of Offler the Crocodile God. Then they add a rule that any student claiming Offlerism will be quizzed on the subject, because religion is not a joking matter. ''Then'' they have to acknowledge that, to worshippers of Nog-Humpty the Custard God, it ''is'' a joking matter.
* This shows up in some of the ''[[Star Trek]]'' novels.
** In ''How Much for Just the Planet?'' by [[John M. Ford]], we have McCoy explaining why he, Sulu, and two Klingons won't [[Kneel Before Zod]] (the evil queen Janeka):
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{{quote|'''Dogbert:''' Where do you think I go every Sunday? }}
 
== TheaterTheatre ==
* Near the end of ''[[A Tuna Christmas]]'', Bertha attempts (unsuccessfully) to avoid drinking this way. [[Subverted Trope|Humorously, Arles then starts talking about how he used to lie about his religion so that he could drink.]]
{{quote|'''Arles:''' One time we raised so much hell in Houston I claimed to be an Episcopalian!
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