I knwo that you don't have the bible or anything else telling you how to live so there's not exactly a rule against it for you but it just seems to me that atheists wouldn't want to anyway because they think Christians are delusional. I know I wouldn't want to marry someone who I couldn't respect so atheists are you against being in love with a Christian?
2007-12-03 01:16:58 · 20 answers · asked by Saved by Grace 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'm agnostic, raised Christian. My husband is atheist. One of my children is atheist, one agnostic, and one Christian.
It's funny how once you really start thinking about your beliefs, it becomes so much easier to respect others for theirs. Unless someone's beliefs led them to cause me harm or disrespect, I can't see their religion having anything to do with whether I loved them or not.
2007-12-03 01:21:48 · answer #1 · answered by SuperN 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about the "unequally yoked" bit, but I personally don't think I could have a long-term romantic relationship with a Christian, or any other deeply religious person. I have tried it in the past, and it simply doesn't work for me.
Other atheists seem to pull it off and be happy about it, so more power to them.
2007-12-03 01:23:44 · answer #2 · answered by marbledog 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I'm in love with a Christian now and I don't feel like there's a problem with it. I respect people of all faiths. I don't feel like I can't respect my boyfriend just because he's a Christian, just like he doesn't feel like he can't respect me because I'm not Christian. We feel like we can work through what differences we might have. So far, we haven't encountered any that would shake our relationship.
Just because Atheists don't have a bible telling us "how to live" doesn't mean that we don't know how. Not all Atheists feel that Christians are delusional. I don't. I just feel like Christianity isn't for me.
2007-12-03 02:47:38 · answer #3 · answered by . 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"I knwo that you don't have the bible or anything else telling you how to live "
that is not correct; we don't follow the bible, yet you don't see atheists go around systematically murdering, raping and pillaging. Nor do you see people of other religions systematically doing that.
So what is it? Laws? I don't think so. We are not islands, we are parts of social groups. Parents, lovers, peers, children. I think it is this coherent framework of society that binds us. And I think this framework changes over time, for evidence, see slavery, women's rights and other issues.
Anyhow, that is not the answer to your question, just an observation.
To answer your question, I can't imagine finding a religious zealot in my country, and I wouldn't want to marry one. I also think falling in love transcends religion; I think people fall in love not for rational reasons but other ones. More... primal ones.
2007-12-03 01:24:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
I have absolutely no problem with being in love with a Christian, and have been in the past. As long as they're not the "The Rapture is Coming" type I don't really care.
2007-12-03 01:24:11 · answer #5 · answered by Eiliat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are dense, anyone that needs a bible to tell them how to live is absolutely crazy. No two people can see eye to eye all the time and it don't matter that one is a christian and the other an atheist, if you need help from the "Good Book" then you are a complete idiot...good luck in life because you have alot in store for you...Osama wants all of us to turn Muslim, you going to do that?
2007-12-03 01:30:28 · answer #6 · answered by Toxic 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
"against being in love with a Christian"
no. but there are different degrees of Christians, from professed but not practicing, to utter fundamentalists whose whole lives are consumed with Jebus. my gf is a laid back catholic.
but i do understand that a relationship with another person that does not share a similar worldview, morals, and understanding would result, ultimately, in incompatibility.
even as a "nonbeliever" i also realize the value in "loving thy neighbor". the message of Jesus is not inseparable from the dogma and belief of the church which elevates him to that of a god. morality predates Christianity.
2007-12-03 01:22:23 · answer #7 · answered by Free Radical 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm not against being in love with a christian considering I married one.
I also do not consider myself "unequally yoked" and neither does he - after all it's not like we are oxen or something.
2007-12-03 01:20:24 · answer #8 · answered by genaddt 7 · 7⤊ 0⤋
My beloved husband of many years is a Christian. We don't talk about the bible or religion. I do mutter "Moron" some times in his general direction now and then.;)
2007-12-03 01:49:06 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wow, you can't RESPECT people who think differently from you? I think that would make for a very painful life experience.
My wife and I have been atheists, christian-and-atheist, and christian. I never noticed that it made a difference.
2007-12-03 01:27:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋