How important to you is it that your partner has the same religious beliefs as you?
1 - Not Important At All
5 - Very Important
I can never be in a relationship with someone who is a devout member of any organized religion. I wouldn't mind if she had a little personal spirituality, or communion with nature, but anything more than that I think is a little cuckoo.
Actually I would say VERY important that they have the same OR SIMILAR beliefs.
As my wife of 30 years is a believer and I am not it really doesn't matter. We know what the other believes and don't try to change the other.
We do have a shared world view of society.
“None of the above”. Being an atheist I have no religious beliefs. I don’t accept the Bronze Age model that a god or gods created the universe, the world and all life.
I believe a positive relationship should be based on mutual respect and honesty. As an atheist, I can not respect a person who bases their belief system on the dishonest premise that faith (belief without evidence) is a methodology to determine (Truth) things that are testable and demonstrated to be correct with evidence. My high standards for truth and honesty do not allow me to accept a religious (one who uses faith to establish their world view) person as a significant part of my life.
Well said
I would not mind if my woman partner was a believer. If she went to church often that would be a problem because those in church would ask about me and pretty soon the pastor and others would tell her how to deal with this. Again, if she was simply a believer that's fine. Crying over me or waking up in the middle of the night coz she "doesn't want me to go to hell" would never be accepted at all. Having been down that road before I would say believing is OK but I draw a line at church membership. I do not want invisible beings guiding my life and I do not turn myself over to anything invisible. Imaginary is a better word here.
I wouldn't be able to be with a woman that is uber-religious. If a woman just believed in God and went to church on Christmas then I'd be fine, but if she needs to go to church every Sunday and Wednesday or has to talk about and interject God or religion in to every conversation or says "Amen" or the like every sentence then I would lose my mind.