Religion/Relationships

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ahahaha.

Ok, if she "believes" in fictional religions not intended to be serious, then awesome! Sith and Black Mages rule...

However, if she is at all religious, then run like the wind!! !

I agree. Religion doesn't matter to me (I'm a liberal Christian) when it comes to a relationship. As far as family gatherings would go, I'd prefer to have as little to do with my family and relatives as possible. I'd be willing to work with my partner on that, though.

Sounds good to me.

Yes I would, I dont think beliefs are that important.

Surely they are to someone who is religious though?

Well, of course beliefs are important, but somebody who truly believes in the notion of loving their neighbour should, in theory, be able to say "meh, whatever makes you happy" when confronted with somebody who doesn't agree with them.

In my experience, your average religious person will not try to convert you or say that you are living an immoral life and should immediately convert if you want your soul to be saved. It's only the real hardcore fundy types that get uptight about a theological disagreement, because they are so immersed in their own belief system that any other viewpoint is obscured by inflexible dogma.

To illustrate the point, my best friend at work is a Jehovah's Witness, and is pretty devout in her faith (Christmas and Easter decorations have to be sort of threaded around her desk, since those holidays are inspired by paganism and apparently can't be counted as proper Christianity. She's also no big fan of unmarried couples living together), but she has never once tried to say anybody is unequivocably wrong for not believing in her creed.

Personally speaking, though, I have a spiritual side to my personality (haven't been to church regularly in some time, though), but if I loved somebody I wouldn't care if their beliefs were different to mine. Hell, I really enjoy the theological discussions I have with the guy who runs my local comic shop, precisely because of our differing beliefs. That's what discussion is supposed to be about, after all.

Religious beliefs doesn't matter to me since I'm way too disillusioned from my Catholicism to consider a relationship. I prefer someone who does indeed share my moral beliefs is very respectful towards people with Aspergers.

I'm an orthodox Roman Catholic and would no longer consider dating a man who was not of the same faith. I want to have a real partnership and deep-running solidarity between my spouse and I, especially with regards to raising children.

Back when I was an atheist, I wouldn't have dated a religious person... for essentially the same reasons.

Sounds to me like you are (and have always been) steadfastly
mutable.

At this point, I don't know. I would say on principle no. I think it would be frustrating for both people. I don't want to be converted, and I wouldn't go to church to pretend to believe. I am an agnostic, I don't have anything against "spiritual" people, but people who follow rigid steadfast religious beliefs bug me. People in my comunity tend to be pretty steadfastly and rigidly religious, though not always moral. Someone brought up being on the same page with their partner moraly. I think that is the most important thing, all personal peeves aside.

Mutable, in the sense of being willing to admit when I've been mistaken--sure.

Ah. So, you might still be?

I've changed my mind now.
Agnostic isn't good enough.
I'd only have an atheist.

I agree with this entire post.

As long as she liked my sword.