Religon in Dating

Quote:

“Anyone else laughing at all the people who said, "Oh, religion is fine as long as the person doesn't try to push their beliefs on me"?

If you're involved with a "Christian" who never tries to help you accept Jesus, they're not much of a Christian. So what you're really saying is that you don't mind dating people who claim to be Christians although they don't practice the teachings of Jesus.”

For an atheist like me, it doesn’t matter. If she’s religious, whether she tries to make me convert or not is inconsequential. I’d be genuinely flattered if anyone cared enough to try, although experiences suggest to me that these are the sort of people who wouldn’t enter into a relationship with a non believer in the first place.

The value I place in the relationship in question would depend on what kind of compromise I’d be willing to make. If you’re with someone you love, you support them in their endeavours and accept them for what they are. That involves not undermining them either: for instance, it’s not my position to casually tell them her about the scandal her formal Sunday school teacher was involved in (local churches have plenty of politics and scandal, and word gets around in a small community).

Of course, if someone claims to be Christian and isn’t able to live up to “expectations” by being unable or unwilling to convert her partner, it doesn’t necessarily make her a bad person. If she doesn’t want to convert me, I’m prepared to view that as an acceptable form of compromise, not an inherent character flaw or misguided religious beliefs on her part. Simply, it boils down to, ‘If I can accept you, you can accept me’ and if you can’t, their’s a need to reevaluate the situation and decide whether we’d be better of not being together.

Jam it back in, in the dark.