robtex said:
It is funny reading the Christian responses. I am playing the dating game as a single guy and about 40 % of the christian women I have a date with or meet for possible dating say they will not date an atheist. I have learned to be up front with that for that very reason. I find the lack of flexablity very interesting on their part.
My oldest son was dumped by a girl because she was a "christian" and he is/was agnostic. He's now engaged to a young lady who is quite active in her church (Lutheran). I believe she's much more likely to lead my son to a relationship with God than the other because she's a shining example of God's love....in so many ways.
Depending on how rabid the atheist and/or theist is, a marriage can work. My husband is an agnostic, verging on atheism, and I am a christian. We coexist quite peacefully because neither of us feel the need to browbeat the other into our belief system. He has no problem with me taking the kids to church and I have no problem with him telling them he doesn't believe and why.
Our two oldest are still fence sitting agnostics, although my middle son just told me in an offhand way the other day that he's been praying. So who knows where they'll end up.
On the other hand, I don't think I could be married to another theist if their beliefs were not the same as mine. There would be a battle over how the children were raised.
I honestly don't know how a devout Jew could marry any other than another Jew, a muslim another muslim, an LDS another LDS, and many other protestant denominations, etc. since the belief systems are at odds with each other.
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