If she is religious enough to expect me to be nice about her religion that i think is a crock of s**t, then we would have a problem.

My girlfriend has spiritual beliefs, which i dont share, but she doesnt expect me to believe in the same as her, and doesnt mind how i feel about them.

besides she can kick your azz

She normally just kicks my balls

Not really but then again if your a BIBLE BASHER you may not like tattoos of mine...... and i really don't do the whole God is wonderful thing...

Hey, Kelly, you look sorta familiar....!

No fanatics please .
Keep you religious beliefs for yourself .
.

No fanatics please .
Keep you religious beliefs for yourself .
.

Quite the opposite, actually.
reasons? I'd just have a hard time taking anyone too seriously who is an adult and still believes in fairytales.

I would prefer Spiritual over Religious......

Why?

Religion can be too limiting...


Edit:

Unless, of course, her religion entails worshiping me.....

sounds like we all are pretty much in agreement. for a date here and there it doesn't matter but for a relationship we prefer someone who thinks as us. Well the saying still holds true in a relationship you can be happy or you can be right. belittle someone about their faith. likely you are not getting laid that night. make up sex is another issue, lol

Hi Everyone...new to this but for me it is important that the person have faith. I think when you are looking for someone to date it is always a good idea to have similar basics and for me having some sort of faith in your heart is important. I don't care if you go to church with me but you can't bash it.

Yeah I want a potential partner to have the same or similar beliefs as me. No one can always a agree though and Im willing to get to know everyone that shows an interest in me, even if they at first set up red flags that this just isnt going to work, you never know where God is going to work.

Many people would probably be surprised that their basic beliefs about right and wrong are very closely alligned, very similar, even if their religious semantics are totally different. People don't realize that right and wrong are basically the same from one religion to the next, regardless of the title that is attached to the belief system. For me, I'd like to find someone who believes in rather similar religious semantics, because that makes the whole religion thing much less complicated. I don't want someone telling me that because I don't believe in sleeping around, and I don't think that it's right to steal, and I think that it's in everybody's best interest to help each other, doesn't mean that I want for my boyfriend (or eventually husband) to try to convert me to his religion because I already know the difference between right and wrong, have morals, and don't try to cheat anyone, just because he thinks that those traits are only prevelant in his religious affiliation. (Wow, is that a run-on sentence)
So, yeah, religion is kind of important to me when looking for someone to have a relationship with.

I think if you are both respectful of each other and your specific religions, then two people can, potentially, get along fine even if they are members of seperate religions.

if you are talking about well known religions the yes a lot of the beliefs about right and wrong are similar. once you start getting to not so well known then you get things that very. such as sleeping around is a positive thing in some religions. especially when having sex with priests or priestess. church of Isis is a good example this. priestess are expected to sleep with at least 1000 men as part of development. i know some of the guys here would like to know where to sign up, lol. So your views on right and wrong may be way different from those of another religion. And you say as long as they respect each others religion. well that only happens when neither take their religion seriously. if you honestly believe in a religion then you will want your partner to believe the same thing. Religion in itself claims it is the right way. whether it is a monotheism, polytheism, atheism or somewhere in between each one claims theirs is the right way and everyone else is ignorant.

neither

i dated a christian guy once
(and i know not all of them are CRAZY)
but this one was

totally different views on EVERYTHING

in fact we had this conversation(dont ask how it was brought up..i have no clue)

we were taking about child rapists/whatnot
and i asked him if he was married and had a child and found out if his wife was molesting his child..would he divorce he
(any sane person would be like heck yes or id kill them!)

no..his answer...
*i would try to forgive..isnt that what god taught us?*

something retarded along those lines

AND he was against homosexuality
LAME


that doesnt mean an athiest and a religious person cant get along/have a relationship

the religious person just has to be OPEN and not CRAZY

Well not looking for a date but if I were, NO they wouldn't have to be either. Spiritual I could handle better though, unless it required some sort of ritual that drove me nuts. lol