Two part question about political/religious views.?

Question

No. 1
Is it more important to you that someone shares your religious views or your political views?

No.2
When someone makes you one of their contacts…do you reciprocate just for the gesture…..or do you first check to see if you share their views?

Sorry if the last question was not clear...contacts in the YA network.

Answer 1

I don't need anyone to share my views, because they are pretty skewed. However, depending on the religious belief sometimes I have to question their intelligence and then i determine if it will be a waste of time forming a friendship or relationship.

I never check to see if I share a contacts views, many of my contacts and I have very different ideology, I check to see if they are reasonable and intelligent in their questions and answers regardless of their ideological bent.

Answer 2

1. Important for what? For making someone's acquaintence? For becoming friends? For marrying the person? The importance to me depends on the situation. I probably won't marry someone whose spiritual/religious or political views are extremely different from my own. Nature of the universe.

Hypothetical: Would I rather marry a staunch Republican or a Christian fundamentalist? I'd have to say a republican. I can comprehend certain aspects of a right-wing viewpoint, but I can't co-exist with the extreme fundamentalism. Of course, the two often go together, so my tendency is to avoid the whole arena.

2. Contacts?

Answer 3

If they share my religious views, the will share my political views. But someone who shares my political views may not be even close to my religious views or even be opposite. I go for the religious views first, then i know all the rest is safe.

And do not reciprocate a contact. It's OK to accept them if they have earned your trust, but not just to build a friend list.

Answer 4

#1 Political views are more important to me. There are so many religous views it's almost impossible to find someone that matches mine.

#2 I always go read up on a contact, but I usually accept them no matter their political affiliation.

Answer 5

I really don't care what a person's religious or political views are, as long as they're reasonable and open minded. And If they aren't, well, I still don't care.

And I have yet to figure out how the contact-thing works.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Neither are important to me, the only thing that concerns me is that do not try to push either onto me...we can be friends, hang out, but dont talk religion or politics with me.

Answer 8

no1: i will like people to share my political/religious views because i want them to benefit from such view. no2: inorder not to run into trouble i will first check to see if i share their views

Answer 9

Political for superficial relationships, religious for deeper relationships.

No

Answer 10

It would be nice to have both... but you never know when he/she could be lieing (just something to think about).

I would check to see if they share my views