I stopped trying to date. Just a cat lord now. Going out and meeting people is better which i stop doing. I am unlikily to try to date a believer, trumpster,. Hell i am 57 i am waiting on ssd and hope for a good life at 65. Good luck and when dating do not settle

Be very cautious with the online dating sites,I'm a Widower,having lost my wife last Sept. to lung cancer,the sites are set up to prey on your loneliness,I've been scammed for about $1K a few months ago,gift cards and other things.

The paid for memberships are more than happy to take your money with no guarantee of success. I've used about all you can think of no dates, lots or interest but most decent women are too far away. If you research the sites for complaints,not many have positive ratings,some with one star,not 5.....

I do the same. Is time efficient. Of course, when you put athiest down, as do I, you are immediately eliminated from 99% of other's consideration. Athiests are a loathed minority. You don't believe in the invisible man? You must be a bad person? Actually , one of my nick names is BAD BOB. I love it.

If you are clear about what you want then you are likely to be time effective.

It's your life and your personal preferences. If you are not interested in dating someone who has religious beliefs, then you are being time effective.

I can separate someone that has religious beliefs but if they say something like “it’s a big part of my life” or something like that, I cannot date someone like that. I don’t judge. I just want someone like minded.

If you're an atheist, you'd be wasting your time with believers. Dismiss immediately.

I quit POF because of the religious freaks. I tried dating one once and couldn't tolerate his religious and political views but most of all his hypocracy sickened me. You're right. Don't waste your time. They are out to evangelize but still wanna fuck.

I rarely respond to those that have any religious nonsense in their profiles.

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.

Your Choice!!!

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

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.

Intolerant. You'll fit right in here.

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.

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 .

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.

Probably just being frugal.

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

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 and prudent.

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.

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

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.