Is the religious persuasion of your partner(hypothetical or real) important?

Well, how important are your partners religious beliefs?

Could you have a relationship with somebody who had a very different belief system to your own?

 

As long as they don't try to push their beliefs on me I don't care.

 

I really wouldn't mind, relationships are about compromise, and I agree with Ang, as long as they don't try to push it on me it's all gravey.

 

In theory, not important at all.
In practice, though, I imagine there would be lengthy discussions unless she was happy to let me rant away without feeling a need to retort and argue.

... although to be fair, any partner of mine would have to be happy to do so.

 

Yes, I could. It all depends on what and how she beliefs of course, but it doesn't necessarily have to match my beliefs at all.

 

I used to think that it didn't matter, but as I'm growing up and getting older (!) I think I'd want someone with similar background and same religious beliefs.
My religion is a big part of who I am and I want someone who'd understand that.

 

as long as they aren't a lying christian, a money grubbing jew, or a terrorist, i won't mind

 

Fitzy's gonna marry a bearded hindu.

 

Yeah, it's more about respecting and being able to understand eachothers beliefs than actually having the same beliefs.

 

I am a Christian, though cautiously. I don't play missionary to others, because 1-to me, religion is personal and 2-I don't KNOW. I BELIEVE. There is a difference, and I can accept that I might be wrong.
My boyfriend is... well, let's say agnostic (he has issues with labels). He doesn't worship, doesn't necessarily believe that there is a God, but would be willing to accept that it existed if he had proof. Would he worship? Probably not.
Does it bother me? A little bit at times (mostly when I think about how we would raise our kids), but not as much as if he had asserted that he believes there is no God. I don't have a problem with religious differences in a partner until someone says "there's no God and that's that." I couldn't be with someone like that for the rest of my life. No offense, but it's always struck me as a very arrogant position to take. If I am willing to say, I believe this, but acknowledge that I might be wrong, then he should be able to do the same. With all the weird shit that happens that can't be explained in this world, you can't always just go by what you can touch or prove. But it's the same with spiritual things. I have lived in haunted houses all my life, and I hate it when people say there are no such things as ghosts and everyone who says they've seen one is lying or crazy. How the hell do you know? It's the same concept.
And if there are ghosts- something you can't always see or detect, but only comes out when it wants to- then why not a God? What makes you so afraid to say, "maybe"?
I'm not saying I couldn't be friends with someone who was an atheist and such, but in a life partner, I'm looking for someone a little closer to me.

 

no biggie.

 

I couldn't date someone with differing views then me. I don't believe in god and neither does my partner, I think that it would be such a issue trying to raise children. That being said I'll let my child make their own choice, but I don't want any mention of god in my house though.

 

is it really a choice if the options are kept a secret?

 

there is not a very strong religions beliefs in my family and nobody really cares about it really

 

Sometimes I think this^^ way. Some other times I think it would be difficult to go past the dating stage with a believer girl.

 

Sure it is, if they want to go to church with friends by all means they can go, but no way will I take them for the first time. I'd even drop them off at the door but I wouldn't go in, and if they got all preachy they'd have to find their own way.

 

Its the person, and their views/ beliefs/ values generally.

Some so-called religious people are twats and some athiests believe in "doing the right thing".
Altho athiests must be pretty miserable people... I suppose.

I however follow Jum-Jah, the great pigeon-God.
Infact, I will be visiting his holiest shrine on a pilgrimage soon.

 

I could not date someone who actively worships anything, but that's simply because I couldn't really respect them enough to date them.

 

Yes it matters.

 

it matters tremendously to me for several reasons. first of which being that religion, in my opinion, is the worst idea humankind ever came up with. i have only ever seen it be a catalyst for repression, guilt, aggression, greed, hypocrisy, and exclusion. i cannot support that in any way shape or form, nor can i handle being around it. that being said, i would potentially date someone who is still a little it linked to their past with a religion, if i could tell they were moving away from it and more in line with my belief system.

this is not to say that i think everyone should believe and think the way i do. but i have some pretty "out there" beliefs and spiritual practices that are extremely important to me. they really are such a part of who i am and how i live my life, that someone i'm in a serious relationship with is going to have to be at least somewhat on the same path. simply because i can't see how an honest, open relationship could exist for me without some level of understanding between my partner and i.