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Would You Love Someone Who Loved Their God More Than You?

loverofhumanity

We are all the leaves of one tree
Premium Member
Would you love, marry, and/or partner with someone who loved their god more than they loved you?


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As for myself, I could see this going either way.

On the one hand, there is less chance than there is modesty in a public bathhouse on "Toweless Tuesdays" that I would allow myself to get involved with a fundamentalist who loved her deity even half as much as she loved me. Anything more than half as much as me would be profoundly foolish, I think, given what kind of disgusting deities fundamentalists as a group tend to have. At least, that's how I myself see their deities. It's like asking would I get involved with someone who loved Charles Manson more than me. Hell no!

But on the other hand, it might actually be desirable to get involved with someone who had a healthy notion of deity and who loved their god more than me. It's kind of like asking, "Would you get involved with someone who thought there were bigger, more meaningful things in this world than themselves and you." Of course I might!

Among other things, a sense of purpose, mission in life is hugely attractive in a partner. At the very least, it means they might not end up a couch potato.

But what about you? Would you get involved with someone who loved their god more than they loved you?



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Here's a tune in a futile effort to make it up to you for such a lousy thread....



If a person loved God that much then they would love me intensely. As it is written..

“The best way to thank God is to love one another”. (Abdul-Baha)

if the person neglected me then that would mean they don’t love God at all even if they claimed to. To love God is to love all people and the two are inseparable and intertwined.
 

Samantha Rinne

Resident Genderfluid Writer/Artist
Would you love, marry, and/or partner with someone who loved their god more than they loved you?


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As for myself, I could see this going either way.

On the one hand, there is less chance than there is modesty in a public bathhouse on "Toweless Tuesdays" that I would allow myself to get involved with a fundamentalist who loved her deity even half as much as she loved me. Anything more than half as much as me would be profoundly foolish, I think, given what kind of disgusting deities fundamentalists as a group tend to have. At least, that's how I myself see their deities. It's like asking would I get involved with someone who loved Charles Manson more than me. Hell no!

But on the other hand, it might actually be desirable to get involved with someone who had a healthy notion of deity and who loved their god more than me. It's kind of like asking, "Would you get involved with someone who thought there were bigger, more meaningful things in this world than themselves and you." Of course I might!

Among other things, a sense of purpose, mission in life is hugely attractive in a partner. At the very least, it means they might not end up a couch potato.

But what about you? Would you get involved with someone who loved their god more than they loved you?



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Here's a tune in a futile effort to make it up to you for such a lousy thread.
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To love God is to be in love. It is to hopefully understand that God is in all of us, and that worship of God is a relationship, and that God is basically expressed through love of your loved one. Essentially, God likes your fetishes, and a real match loves that you love God. If they object to your love of God and get jealous, they arw not a healthy relationship to start with.
 

JJ50

Well-Known Member
To love God is to be in love. It is to hopefully understand that God is in all of us, and that worship of God is a relationship, and that God is basically expressed through love of your loved one. Essentially, God likes your fetishes, and a real match loves that you love God. If they object to your love of God and get jealous, they arw not a healthy relationship to start with.

My husband and I would be down the divorce court if either of us loved anything more than our own family, including an evil god, which more than likely doesn't exist.
 

1213

Well-Known Member
Would you love, marry, and/or partner with someone who loved their god more than they loved you?
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It depends on what is God. Bible tells God is spirit and love. If someone would love me more than Him, I would think it is stupid and wrong, I am not that good.

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.
John 4:24

He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.
1 John 4:8

Also, in Biblical point of view, to love God means this:

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.
1 John 5:3

I think it would be bad and evil, if person would love me more than Bible God.
 

JJ50

Well-Known Member
It depends on what is God. Bible tells God is spirit and love. If someone would love me more than Him, I would think it is stupid and wrong, I am not that good.

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.
John 4:24

He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.
1 John 4:8

Also, in Biblical point of view, to love God means this:

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.
1 John 5:3

I think it would be bad and evil, if person would love me more than Bible God.

I think it is bad and evil to love the god character, it is badness personified, if what the Bible says about it is factual.
 

IndigoChild5559

Loving God and my neighbor as myself.
If they didn't love God more, I would think their priorities were askew.

However, I think a person can go overboard with obsessive compulsive religion, where it becomes a little mental. I'm not saying they should be like that.
 

Saint Frankenstein

Wanderer From Afar
Premium Member
That would be fine if they loved God more, because God to me is truth and ultimate reality rather than some human-like deity.
 
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