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I don't remember hearing about anything like that on the Protestant end.
edited 18th Feb '11 9:25:22 PM by rmctagg09
Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.This is false.
Just because you are convinced that the bible supports a particular interpretation doesn't mean that there aren't people who sincerely disagree with it, having read exactly the same text you did. People become very invested in their interpretations, but if the meaning were that clear cut, these disagreements wouldn't come up in the first place.
...eventually, we will reach a maximum entropy state where nobody has their own socks or underwear, or knows who to ask to get them back.Honestly, I can't see being a long-term relationship with a seriously religious person any more than I can see being in a long-term relationship with a card-carrying Republican (too fine a distinction?). I'm not going to try to stop you from believing whatever you want to believe, but I can't see having a real relationship with someone whose basic ideals differ so sharply from my own.
So assuming the relationship was just starting, and the conversion attempt was the first inkling I had that the other person was religious, the response I see from me is "Sorry, I guess this isn't going to work." Better to part ways early than to keep it going and risk having children with someone who's going to want to take them to church - one thing I'm quite adamant about is that if I ever have children (which is a very big "if"), I'm not going to have any part in "giving them religion". If their mother wants them to have a religious upbringing, she can bring them up herself.
edited 18th Feb '11 10:23:49 PM by LullTheConqueror
the dice are loaded, the deck is stacked, the game itself will hold you backAn uncomfortable innuendo?
I sorry, I think I forgot to mention, this thread is under the assumption that the two person have been a couple pretty deep into their relationship already.
If they just met, the answer would have been easy, "hahaha...we're through baby, let's just be friends."
edited 19th Feb '11 12:48:50 AM by Signed
"Every opinion that isn't mine is subjected to Your Mileage May Vary."
In that case, see the first paragraph. The second one was me imagining the only situation in which I can really see a significant other trying to convert me.
If we were deep into the relationship and they themselves converted... well, that's a bridge I'll cross if and when I come to it. Hopefully never. But since no one (broadly speaking) has the zeal of a convert, my instincts tell me my SO's conversion would be the death knell for the relationship.
the dice are loaded, the deck is stacked, the game itself will hold you backI think I stayed up too late...but someone with a creative enough imagination can probably twist that into one I betcha.
"Every opinion that isn't mine is subjected to Your Mileage May Vary."Suppose that someone you’re dating is very religious, and part of a religious sect or mindset that differs from your own of course, but ready and willing and completely open to new religions and thoughts concerning reality?
Well, assuming He has absolutely no contact whatsoever with anyone in the world but one relatively small subset of humanity is a pretty big leap to make from it. I can think of a lot of people who are likely quite a bit closer to God than they think.
My wife grew up Southern Baptist. That's religion, baby. One of their major beliefs is the Great Commission (Matthew 28:19, "go and make disciples of all nations"). They don't go door to door like other churches because they don't have to—everybody around here is already Baptist.
I'm an agnostic. I don't believe in a supreme being, but I do believe there is some sort of higher power we don't (and possibly can't) understand. I think organized religion is basically a con game.
How do we get along? I found out long ago that when Southern belles realize you're not a believer, it's over. I could have died a virgin if I hadn't learned to camouflage my beliefs. I say the words, I sing the songs, I listen to the sermons, I spot the superstitions. They won't change my beliefs, and I won't change theirs. In this case I go along to get along.
About missionaries, I think the goal there is to force your culture onto the "pagans," even though there was nothing wrong with their old culture.
^ So what do they do one they find out you don't believe in their god? Exile you?
"Every opinion that isn't mine is subjected to Your Mileage May Vary."Don't jews follow the Torah?
As for couples of different religion...I think that it's impossible to work unless one of them keeps it a secret or outright abandon their religion....
Not all, but quite a few religion that believes in stuff like hell often have a taboo against religions that aren't theres......not sure if it was always like that or if it was added in to prevent followers from joining other religions.
edited 19th Feb '11 9:40:50 PM by Signed
"Every opinion that isn't mine is subjected to Your Mileage May Vary."Then I would stop seeing them as soon as possible and mention that even if I DID convert for them, it would only be the bare minimum of prayer/church/religious ceremony. It'd have to be some guy to make me genuinely convert for them.
Of course, as I'm actually a neo-pagan, this is drawing uncomfortable parallels to "Christianity converting pagans because they're the ones with the most religious influence in the world."
If I were involved with an atheist, I just wouldn't care as long as they weren't a Hollywood Atheist or tried to make me STOP being religious for them *.
i have to deal with this crap like every other day.... my mother (queen bitch of the universe (yeah i quote from the abyss (i have my reasons to saying that))) is a christian radical (those fanatical types that think the earth is flat and the earth doesn't move) and has practically destroyed my life in her "faith" (let alone sent me to real life torture and still does it every now and than and yes i've tried to run away... its not that easy in this corrupt country)... she like sends me exorcist or some religious shit like that and i go all Hannibal lecture on their ass, i turned 4 or 5 of her cohorts to atheism, or if i'm in a bad mood, tell them to fuck off, than they get hostile and do a mass beating sometimes, i'm actually considering suicide right now, you guys can't even fathom the shit i went through 'cause of this bitch.. these guys just do not give up, and they speak of tolerance while they are as intolerant as fuck going all the way to outright torture just because i'm a atheist, i just cannot believe in a god.. especially when "god's people" are torturing somebody... and yeah it happens alot, and really... there is nothing i can do... i've tried everything, nothing works...but well.. at least i tell flip them off or go all Hannibal lecture on them... its actually quite fun (when it pays off not when it backfires and i get tortured (i'm telling you guys... water-boarding is nothing to me, water-boarding for me is like go to a water amusement park....they can be... Way. Worse.) when they turned atheist because of my lectures i reply them and they get all bitchy and whiney that they'll do things to me to shut me up and accept christ as my savior... well.. FUCK'EM.... with people like this why need enemies...
"I've become death... the destroyer of worlds...and come to think about it... it's only the end of the world"Aqua....I'm sorry, but you sound more like a strawman of a Atheist.
And I highly doubt that flat-earth and geocentric people still exist, much less a person being both.
"Who wants to hear about good stuff when the bottom of the abyss of human failure that you know doesn't exist is so much greater?"-Wraith.....I'm really hoping that you're not serious.
"Who wants to hear about good stuff when the bottom of the abyss of human failure that you know doesn't exist is so much greater?"-Wraith

Um... that seems sect-specific.
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