Would you date someone who was not religious?

My GF is a proud Christian. I believe in a higher power, but consider it the height of arrogance to assume anyone has any idea what it wants or expects enough to form an entire religion around it. God is, by definition, unknowable and undefinable. We’ve been together for 8 happy years and counting 🙂

Ironically she thinks I’d make an excellent preacher 😂

Maybe if they were like, passively religious, if religion for them was more like suspension of disbelief than an actual core part of their ideology. A lot of people are like that. But in general, that's just too fundamental a difference for me to deal with. I want to be able to actually reason with my partner instead of being met with a bunch of quotes from a two thousand year old book whenever I try to have a discussion with her lol.

atheist here / would and have dated someone who believed in God. The more dogmatic they are the less likley we could work out.

I had a number of Jewish and Pagan girlfriends in my past and the ever-so-popular spiritual but not religious --although I am still confused on exactly what that means except not dogmatic which is good enough for me.

i got shot down a lot for not believing in god over the years. I figured I should put my atheism on the table early in the courting process. I had women a few times walk out on a date when I told them i didn't believe in God. That was a super long time ago though.

As an atheist I would have difficulty dating someone who was a member of any religion. I guess I could just about tolerate someone who had a vague notion of a "higher power" but anything beyond that would take me into areas of irrationality that I simply could not tolerate :)

Yes, I would but I would be completely unapologetic about my Faith.

What I mean to say is, before I found religion I had dated religious people, and was outspoken against some of the things they say. Found god when I was fifteen, still don’t agree with all of the things that some of them say, and an atheist isn’t really my type anymore but it happens.

I have dated agnostic and atheist. Yet I'm not religious myself in the traditional sense of "church".

Wicca fits me because there's no such thing as a church. And therefore no real organization.

I couldn't date anyone that was a church or organized religion goer. Doesn't matter which religion. Even Shinto, Hindi and Buddhist go to temple or shrines which tell what they should do. But they are humans themselves!

I believe religion gets in way of society, because there's always someone that the head of the organization controlling everyone else. Telling them they should do this or that. Or that this book or that writing is the truth.

To me that's wrong. Religion is personal. No body should be controlling others.

Let people think for themselves! That's why you have a brain! 🤷🏻‍♂️

I'm not religious and would have no problem dating someone religious as long as they didn't try to force their beliefs on me. That's a huge turn off for me. And I have broken up with someone who kept doing that.

I've done the "[i]vice versa[/i]", @Coralmist - the physical side of our relationship didn't survive because of her beliefs but we remain more than "just good friends" over ten years later.

Maybe. I suppose it would depend on how non religious they were. Someone simply not interested might be more compatible than someone religious but with non compatible beliefs.

I define myself as "ex Christian". It's not that I'm not religious, more that my beliefs have evolved to the point that I'm no longer comfortable with Christianity. So if I was single and looking, finding someone who identified as Christian who I was actually comfortable with seems a bit less likely than finding someone only vaguely religious.

I have dated inside and outside of my religious preference. You can learn a lot from each other without a deity getting in the middle

I did marry a man who doesn't believe in a God. He is one f the many that are way too smart to fall for that nonsense. 🙄 so Yes, I guess I would

Dating (and marriage) is a balancing act of compromise.

IE: My SO is a believer and is religious, while I OTOH am not either. So we compromise a lot. I will go to Mass on "special days" such as Christmas or Easter, but attendance alone does not make one a believer. As far as Mass every Sunday..... I do not criticize, but I do not attend and my SO does not criticize me for showing little to no interest in attending.

It wouldn't bother me either way 😌.
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I’d prefer that actually

I have it was fine its not like either of us forced the other to attend church or (real life) aka reality training. Lol

I think I could, the last person i dated wasn’t much of a religious person, then again I’m not a huge religious person either

I am an atheist so that is my preference. But love transcends. I can love somebody even if they are wrong, and delusional.

Yes and I married him too. I don’t mind if he is or he isn’t as long as I am free to exercise my beliefs or (non)

It depends on how religious they are. I would much prefer to date a non-religious person.

No religion causes too much trouble unless you both believe in the same one.

I don't associate with nihilists, let alone date them...

How can two walk together if they do not agree?

I have. It is ultimately challenging.

I've often found that a guy I've been attracted is an atheist, I think it's just a coincidence though as I'm not seeking it out.

No. This is a big difference in mindest.

It would be my preference.

Nmh

Sure I would, as long as they're not radical about it. That goes for both religious and irreligious people.

Probably not. I respect the choices of others, but I need my mate to be close to what I believe, and she is.

religion shouldn't determine worth in a partner, so yes I would