Obviously there are other important factors that contribute to compatibility, but is your ideal mate also an atheist?
2007-03-25 12:58:54 · 17 answers · asked by Eleventy 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No. I wouldn't care (your "other factors" are indeed important), and my wife's Catholic. What counts is that each is open to the other's beliefs (i.e. "are tolerant of"), *not* what the beliefs are.
2007-03-25 13:01:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes. It makes things simpler if we're both atheists. I wouldn't let religion get in the way though if he was a believer and otherwise compatible.
2007-03-26 11:57:20 · answer #2 · answered by undir 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd love to marry a Christian girl. Man o man would I test her faith.
If I could convert her to atheism and make her see the light then I think I could get alot of joy from that.
Of course if she chooses to remain Christian then I would say more power to her.
I just like debating my position on why I'm an atheist.
2007-03-25 20:03:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm an atheist and I married an agnostic deist.
So... it's pretty much the same as marrying an atheist!
2007-03-25 20:06:24 · answer #4 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not really. I've been perfectly happy being married to a woman who isn't an atheist. We respect one another's beliefs, even if we don't share all of them. I doubt that she would love me if I were a religion-hating, perpetual-sneer-upon-my-lips kind of nontheist, and I doubt that I would be attracted to her if she were the closed-minded, Bible-thumping, everyone-who-doesn't-go-to-my church-is-going-to-hell kind of god-believer, either.
2007-03-25 20:02:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Definitely.
2007-03-25 20:01:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Mmm.. Being an Athiest myself, I would say no... If the one I truly loved and was going to marry was Catholic for instance, I would be fine marrying her in her traditional ways. As long as she would be happy, that is all that matters to me.
2007-03-25 20:03:43 · answer #7 · answered by Zach 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Not entirely. I'm not saying I'd be attracted to a Jesus fanatic but I want someone who understand me on a spiritual level but they don't necessarily have to be atheist. Just someone who is openminded
2007-03-25 20:02:02 · answer #8 · answered by Banana tree 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Most likely, no. But, ideally, yes.
2007-03-25 20:02:07 · answer #9 · answered by paralegaltechnik 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
2007-03-25 20:27:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋