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My concerns about people are less what they believe, and more how they act. I've know as many low-minded theists as I do low-minded non-theist/skeptics. That said, I would have difficulty being in a romantic relationship with someone who spoke of a god as the source of her strength.

EricList 5 Jan 21
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I'm with you most of the way. Where I split off is the last bit (not that I'm dating; this is purely hypothetical).

Just professing "God gives me strength" (or something like that) is not enough to turn me off. A statement like that may be indicative of what I would consider weak-mindedness, but not necessarily. I would have to draw my conclusions from an adequate fund of observable behaviors.

I give far less weight to what people say than to what they do. I watch for how well the two match up. I know people say things they don't mean, or haven't thought through. (Not that I'm keen on getting close to anyone who doesn't say what they mean; I just know it's exceedingly rare to find someone who doesn't ever do this!)

Probably most people who would say "God gives me strength" are going to turn out to be uninteresting to me. But I'm not going to condemn any of them without a fair trial.

And the one out of a thousand who believes and has impeccable integrity? Solid gold. Well worth the effort of sorting through 999 duds.

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I don't have much of a problem with the god concept. And I had seen "weak people".

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This, sadly, is my life—all my family and in-laws, and most of all my spouse. Welcome to the danger of building your marriage "on the rock of Jesus" and then realizing he is most likely isn't a real thing—the crappy dealings of indoctrination-based decision-making!

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