Absolutely time effective.

I did the same thing when I was on for a minute.

We want what we want. There is no one size fits all.

Good luck!

Most certainly time effective.

No, only the ones that say "If you don't LOVE JESUS we won't get along". Some people list an affiliation out of habit but don't care too much about it.

Time effective

Well religion is such a big deal for a lot of religious people I would say that is just being efficient

I think you are doing the right thing, efficiency, I had an experience, actually a couple, one guy I was chatting with, told me, it would never work, because I was an Atheist, then another time I went out with a guy, once, we went to visit his sister or brother, I don't remember and when we discovered we had Atheism in common, he never wanted to see me again, his loss !

I think it’s time effective in most cases but for myself I will also consider political bent because extreme conservativism will get a very quick no from me. I don’t do willful ignorance very well and in my experience, most extremists willfully embrace their ignorance in the name of their god.

It's totally your prerogative. You get to decide who you want to associate with, period. =]

You might be automatically deleting your soulmate.

I disagree, most sites ask what you affiliate toward, some will even ask if it's important or not. It's one thing if they go out of their way to say in the profile that is what they are about. But most don't care either way.

I would not date a religious person. I also don't understand why a religious person would want to date an atheist.

To coin a phrase, there are some fine people who hold religious beliefs. But we each have different levels of tolerance for them, so you should keep doing this if yours is low. I'd do it too if someone so identified with religion that they felt compelled to put that in a dating site profile. I also eliminate people who say they don't drink, that saves a lot of time too.

I wouldn't dismiss them just because of that. Some people just want to be accepted, to fit in and don't really take religion all that seriously. Some feel pressured to go along with the crowd. Maybe your freedom of spirit is just what they are looking for? You could just say, I'm not interested in religion, and see where that goes.

Time effective and prudent.

There are many scammers out there on those date sites I have had run into a slew of them from Ghana Africa. I put agnostic in my bio and the religious still try click they like you. On Zooks and POF I a fairly certain I make it clear I am agnostic. The auto-delete would be good though.

time effective the more you have going against a potential mate the less likely to suceed

Probably just being frugal.

I don't think I would automatically delete them, I would say, "due to your religious beliefs, I don't think we'd be a good match". They can try to argue their case and you have the option to hear them or ignore them. OR, they'll just accept your response and move on.

There are a lot of fish in the sea . If it's not what you want , you're most likely making things more efficient and less painful for yourself .

It wasn't TOO terribly long ago that I might have listed myself as Christian. Growing up in OK, that was the default position, even if you weren't religious. So I expect there are plenty of people that don't give religion enough thought to label themselves as Atheist or Agnostic, but when asked "what religion are you?" They just say Christian without thinking much about it.

Of course though, I wouldn't waste time with anyone that actively talked about god, church, faith, etc.

Intolerant. You'll fit right in here.

Depends on how important belief is to you. There's a lot of arm chair christians out there that will put it on a form but never attend church and not defend their faith.

That's what I do most of the time as well! Basically, reduces your matches a lot!

Your Choice!!!

I recently joined Zoosk and I also identified myself as athiest and was not responding to anyone who identified a religion but now if they interest me otherwise I'll just ask them how religious they are.