Quote from: Dee_pntx on July 19, 2010, 09:07:15 AM
Because I would not tolerate a person I lived with spewing bible stuff all the time. I can't tolerate to hear ONE such thing much less a non-stop fountain of it from the person I live with. No way.
I am a total, complete, militant Atheist and I don't tolerate ANY religious nonsense in my life.
In public I bite my lip when people spew it but if they push it on me I push back and I push back hard and in very harsh ways.
I won't live with someone that makes me want to duct tape their face shut.
And what if they don't spew bible stuff?
What if they have enough respect for you and your world view to leave their religious beliefs outside of the relationship?
Quote from: Shade on July 19, 2010, 04:08:48 PM
If they believe in magic man in the sky, who knows what other crazy things they believe in. Ghosts, Psychics, ESP, Astrology...etc.
When I have a debate with them, I don't want their answer to be "god did it". I want them to think for themselves. I don't want them spewing this nonsense that was ingrained into them as a child.
When I want to talk about the latest breakthrough in science like oh...when they created synthetic life, I don't want god to even come into the conversation.
I wouldn't want them indoctrinating my children if we were to have children.
I wouldn't want to see them wasting their time praying. Or praying for me. Or having them think my soul is going to burn in hell for eternity.
I don't know, I could go on, but I have this delicious tuna salad sitting here in front of me that is begging to be devoured.
Can you debate about non-god related things?
Not all theists are incapable of debate without including god.
What if they won't raise your children religious?
What if you never have to "see" them pray?
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Is it so hard to respect people you disagree with for other people?
I know, it's maybe not what you guys are saying, but holding love as conditional to "agree with me on this" just seems weird to me.
I respect my husband More for disagreeing with me. Because he does so in a way that I can not say is wrong. Because his logic is not un-sound, and his beliefs could hypothetically be as valid as mine, all things considered.
A person can believe in a god-form of some sort, be a theist, and not be unintelligent.
To simply draw some line in the sand and say "I could never date a person that believes in X" just seems to forgo any possibility that there might be people out there, who believe in X, who are intelligent, rational, hilariously funny, great in bed, respectful of your world view, great looking, and could be right for you, if you were willing to accept that just believing in X in and of itself isn't the tell all of their character.