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Should Religion Affect Your Choice in a Relationship?

Should Religion Affect Your Choice in a Relationship?

  • Yes

    Votes: 17 51.5%

  • No

    Votes: 12 36.4%

  • Can't make up my mind...

    Votes: 4 12.1%
  • Total voters
    33
Cr0wley

Cr0wley

More Human Than Human
Personally, I think it's rubbish. I just heard that my mother's cousin broke up with his girlfriend because she's starting to get interested in Wicca. I was insanely furious, about to phone him up and yell at him for his stupidity before I realised that I'd just be forcing my beliefs on him again.

Anyway, my personal opinion is that if they can handle my Luciferianism then I can handle anything they believe in. Everyone is free to do their own thing, in my opinion.
 
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Tawn

Active Member
Unfortunately yes, but it depends specifically on what different beliefs you have. If you can tolerate someone of a particular faith then thats ok... but sometimes it just isnt possible. I think such a thing has to be a personal choice and you'd be wrong in my opinion to tell your mothers cousin who he can and can't have a relationship with.
 
retrorich

retrorich

SUPER NOT-A-MOD
Should Religion Affect Your Choice in a Relationship?

Well...if you are a Bu****e Christian, I would suggest you not enter into a relationship with a member of the same sex. :rolleyes:
 
Green Gaia

Green Gaia

Veteran Member
Should religion affect relationships? I don't know... but I'm most certain that it does regardless.
 
Melody

Melody

Well-Known Member
Yes, it should...in the sense that you'd better think long and hard about the difficulties you're going to run into if you have widely divergent beliefs.

My husband is an atheist. I am a christian. However, while we have some interesting discussions, he doesn't try to force his views on me and I don't try to force mine on him. He doesn't have a problem with me taking the kids to church and teaching them about God, and I don't have a problem with him telling the kids we're a bunch of sheeple. To that I just say, "Baaaaa". :D

He doesn't have a problem with me attending church on Sunday or the kids youth group on Wednesday and I don't have a problem with him sleeping in on Sunday and not going with us. He loves me enough that he will sit beside me in church on Christmas and (I'm hoping) will today (Mother's Day)...but I won't get upset or make him feel guilty if he chooses not to.

For some, these compromises would be unacceptable, in which case they absolutely should let their religion effect their relationship.
 
Jaymes

Jaymes

The cake is a lie
It should affect the choice, yes... but it shouldn't be the sole reason for the choice.

Liz being a Christian doesn't stop my paganish-butt from loving her. :)
 
EnhancedSpirit

EnhancedSpirit

High Priestess
Melody said:
Yes, it should...in the sense that you'd better think long and hard about the difficulties you're going to run into if you have widely divergent beliefs.

My husband is an atheist. I am a christian. However, while we have some interesting discussions, he doesn't try to force his views on me and I don't try to force mine on him. He doesn't have a problem with me taking the kids to church and teaching them about God, and I don't have a problem with him telling the kids we're a bunch of sheeple. To that I just say, "Baaaaa". :D

He doesn't have a problem with me attending church on Sunday or the kids youth group on Wednesday and I don't have a problem with him sleeping in on Sunday and not going with us. He loves me enough that he will sit beside me in church on Christmas and (I'm hoping) will today (Mother's Day)...but I won't get upset or make him feel guilty if he chooses not to.

For some, these compromises would be unacceptable, in which case they absolutely should let their religion effect their relationship.
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I'm with Meldy on this one.
 
painted wolf

painted wolf

Grey Muzzle
Love is.

IMHO if you fall in love religion shouldn't matter. You do not choose who you love, there is no litmus test for it. No queing up prospectives and handing out tests.

wa:do
 
Halcyon

Halcyon

Lord of the Badgers
Should Religion Affect Your Choice in a Relationship?


That's hard to say, for me, if a prospective partner is intolerant of my beliefs then i doubt she'd be the kind of person i'd fall in love with anyway, i need an open minded g/f. Its not an issue for me what her religious beliefs are, hopefully we'd have some interesting discussions.
 
Sunstone

Sunstone

De Diablo Del Fora
Premium Member
I think if both partners are respectful, tolerant and accepting, then it shouldn't matter what religions they are, even if their religions are very different.
 
Economist

Economist

Member
I think it would be easier to bond with someone who has similar beliefs to you. I'm sure that people with different beliefs can get along, but I just imagine it would be easier to connect if you were the same religion. Then again I may just be the worst person possible to ask advice on this topic!
 
Druidus

Druidus

Keeper of the Grove
Whether she is Christian, Taoist, Buddhist, Wiccan, Druidic, Asatru, Judaist, etc., I will not care.
 
SalemWitchChild

SalemWitchChild

Member
Hello Newbie here and had to answer the question.

I voted yes it should and does.

Certain questions must be answered satifactory before stepping into a relationship with different views. If your a serious dater, things like how will the children be raised, how will holidays be organized, ect.. need to be addressed.

I think that it is possible, though my personal opinion is that I could never love someone who condemned my beliefs.
 
Doc

Doc

Space Chief
I see no reason why it should affect any relationship at least in my experience. I made friends with people of the same beliefs and others with opposite beliefs. I have learned a lot hanging with people different than me.
 
Druidus

Druidus

Keeper of the Grove
Ahh... but will she?
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That is quite the question, no? ;)
 
CaptainXeroid

CaptainXeroid

Following Christ
I voted 'YES'. Religion is the the foundation for many people's lives and represents a fundamental way they view the world and their relationships. A couple has a better chance of lasting when they share this foundation. I don't have survey results in front of me, but I read somewhere that couples that bring different faiths into a marriage have a higher divorce rate than the general public.
 
Crystallas

Crystallas

Active Member
I also voted Yes. Faith is a big part of someone weather it being defined or not defined. Of course someone who is more religious will be more effected than someone that is less.
My soon to be fiance is a Methodist, and I am a firm Roman Catholic. I dont force her, and she doesnt force me, but our foundations are the same and the grey areas that all people have are very similar, so we work well together. But if she decided that she was unsure of evertyhing, then I feel like thats a big slap in my face and insulting. Compare people with diffrent religions to people with diffrent taste in humor. Sometimes its good, but if you never laugh together, how can you expect to stay together.
 
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