How important is it to have a relationship with a partner with a differing religious belief or none?

Question

none, meaning no religious beliefs.

Answer 1

I think it is important if you are contemplating marriage and having children. Then you will have to agree how you are going to raise your children and live in one house with two beliefs. If you are just in a relationship, you can have fun discussing the differences your religions or lack of one has.

Answer 2

Difficult, my dad never attended church and didn't like my mom to. It caused conflict in our home. The dominate individual usually wins out at the compromise of the other, and then there is resentment from it.

Answer 3

i'm an atheist, my brother and sister and father and mother are either atheist or agnostic or some similar non-committed non-believing non-participating something, it's not really important between us. We don''t identify ourselves with some label

BUT

my wife is Catholic we have a son
my sister is married to a Jew, they have 3 sons
my brother is married to a Protestant they have 3 sons
and i have a distant cousin in Turkey married to a Muslem

My father came from a Jewish family and my mother came from a Southern Babtist family

None of us care at all, if others do then that's their problem... We all love each other very much

I don't think it matters if the religious people are just good decent people who like other good decent people and their religous beliefs have not devoured their entire soul then does it really matter? Not to me

Answer 4

For me it is everything.....since we constantly communicate and always express our viewpoints. I couldn't imagine marrying a person who believed, for instance, that homosexuals were an abomination....b/c the bible says so, or any other such nonsense as taking donkeys and a god who would kill off a man's entire family on a dare......we talk about religion ALL the time and have many discussions, but I couldn't marry a man who had that viewpoint....b/c it is without any sort of rational thought that someone would believe that that type of god would be worth worshipping.

Answer 5

my husband is of sikh religion and i have no beliefs and i think it really depends on if what they believe you can really respect

Answer 6

My boyfriend and I had very different beliefs. He was a Baptist and I am Wiccan. Our beliefs were our beliefs, we both chose what to believe and respected each others beliefs. It was interesting talking religion with him though and we both learned something new.

Answer 7

i could be with someone with differing religious beliefs, as long as they did not push them on me.

Answer 8

To me, it is very important.