Religon in Dating

The original question refers to dating, not serious relationships... so I'd say YES.

Religion isn't a problem to me, if the guy is religious that's okay, as long as it's not a fanatic. Seriously, I have a classmate in college who's from something called "Evangelist church" and the way he put it: evangelists *have* to try to convert everyone to their religion. Don't countries have a law against that?

I wouldn't know about the raising children thing, though... My father was Roman catholic and my mother Greek orthodox; me and my brothers weren't forced to believe in either religion as we were growing up. Could that be a solution good enough for everyone?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

That someone isn't a religious fanatic doesn't mean they have commitment issues, Cyrus. :S Without "casual believers" there'd be much more confrontation between people of different religions.

If everyone was so serious about religion, every country would be like Iran!

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Lee-chan

I believe that there's a difference between practicing your beliefs to "sufficient" extent and being radical.

Well, if you're seeing someone who's religious to "sufficient extent" then it's likely that person will disagree with you very much if you don't believe in the same things. I don't want THAT kind of world.

Besides... *who* says where's the line of your "sufficient extent"? To the fanatics *that* is sufficient, so it's for those casual believers. It might not be too easy to define... don't you think?

As for the tolerance thing... the Qu'ran might encourage it... but where do you see it in practice? Oh, I just imagine, what if I were to date a muslim guy? No, wait. That would never happen! I'd have to be muslim myself! @_@

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Cyrus XIII

I beg to differ. A person actually abiding seriously to the teachings attributed to Jesus of Nazareth and the basic moral code from the Old Testament (read: the Ten Commandments) would qualify as a peaceful individual that wouldn't dream of harming anyone.

Hmm... yeah, well... that's impossible. I mean, getting everyone to be an ideal Christian. Also:
Why are there so many branches of christianism if they all believe in the same god? Everytime they disagree on something a new branch is born. It's such a convenient religion...
Why all of them think *they* are the right one? Wouldn't the *first* christianity be the right one? What's its name?
Are they planning on unifying as one church any day soon? Wouldn't THAT be something!

Now about the second part of your post:

Originally Posted by Cyrus XIII

Theocracies like Iran or the atrocities commited by the Catholic church for instance are more based on outright hypocricy than on any spiritual doctrine whatsoever.

What atrocities? The Crusades or the Inquisition? And I don't know what's hypocrite about Iran. I bet the Qu'ran allows death penalty against non-believers. See? In Iran you won't have trouble finding someone from your own religion! All the others are dead.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

I wouldn't know, I don't have a Qur'an. That's why I said "I bet..." instead of "I'm sure...".

If that's just a wrong interpretation, why aren't there exploding zealots based on the Bible or other sacred texts? Yes, there have been crazy cults before... but nothing that inspires a "War on Terror"! :/

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Cyrus XIII

Btw, wasn't this about relationships? Slash didn't want this "which religion is worse?" thing, let's respect that, shall we?

Ok. I didn't mean to let this slide off-topic.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?