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 Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 6:33 pm
I posted this to see how many of you find it that your religion affects your relationship/sexual preference.
I know that some people will strictly not date/become intimate with some who is not of their religion so I was just wondering.
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Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 7:46 pm
personally, it doesn't matter one bit to me. i'm an ecclectic pagan & my boyfriend's hindu. as long as love is in the relationship, who cares what gods reside?
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Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 8:40 pm
My only boundries on religion in relationships is that my boyfriend/girlfriend have to be tolerant of my religion. Other than that, I don't like religion to get in the way of love.
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Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 5:08 pm
i only care that they are open minded enough that it doesnt matter.
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 11:18 am
It is more like a bonus. When they are, then you have something big in common, and you can understand each other really well.
I just dont date really religious catholics. Bad, okay very bad, experience with one.
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 8:47 pm
my girlfriend is from a very religious family but she is really open minded, they all are but there not very keen on the whole pagan thing but we make eachother happy.
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Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:02 pm
I thought for the longest time that it would never matter to me. That I'd find someone, we'd get married and then raise our children with good ethical standards and teach them about faith when they got older and asked about it.
I've talked with my sister alot on the subject. She's made a very good point that having some form of faith to raise your children with gives you a good base for teaching with later on in life.
Example - you raise your kids wiccan and they want to learn about another faith
"Well we believe in a God and Goddess. Catholics believe in God, his son Jesus, and the Virgin Mary"
without the basis of faith to teach from you have no foundation. In dating faith may not be an issue, but when it comes to sucessfully raising and guiding children I think it's important to come to at least a compromise of what to pass on to the next generation.
-Rowena
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Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 9:29 pm
dragonwings87 I thought for the longest time that it would never matter to me. That I'd find someone, we'd get married and then raise our children with good ethical standards and teach them about faith when they got older and asked about it. I've talked with my sister alot on the subject. She's made a very good point that having some form of faith to raise your children with gives you a good base for teaching with later on in life. Example - you raise your kids wiccan and they want to learn about another faith "Well we believe in a God and Goddess. Catholics believe in God, his son Jesus, and the Virgin Mary" without the basis of faith to teach from you have no foundation. In dating faith may not be an issue, but when it comes to sucessfully raising and guiding children I think it's important to come to at least a compromise of what to pass on to the next generation. -Rowena thats a very good point dw
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Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 11:32 am
I guess to me, it does matter. You know what they say, at family get togethers keep certian things out of the converstion, one of them being religion. I would just hate to fight with my partner about religion, something that is profoundly personal and can really strain a relationship. Lucky for me, many of the people I've dated have taken a liking to Wicca and were very open minded and even wanted to learn more. I was very fortunate.
heart AffrenSama
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Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 6:21 pm
AffrenSama I guess to me, it does matter. You know what they say, at family get togethers keep certian things out of the converstion, one of them being religion. I would just hate to fight with my partner about religion, something that is profoundly personal and can really strain a relationship. Lucky for me, many of the people I've dated have taken a liking to Wicca and were very open minded and even wanted to learn more. I was very fortunate. heart AffrenSama a lot of things can strain a relationship and belief should not be one of them.
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Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 1:45 pm
my religion usually does effect my relationships but thats only cause i "used" to date non pagans but not anymore. see im a polyamorous pagan and now the partners i am with are all witches like me. so there is no problem at all. my problem was i was choosing people who would only tolerate my religion not accept so i rectified that by having to date pagans instead of kidding myself and trying to get someone to accept me. it really doesn't matter whether they are pagan or not, if the person really loves they will love everything about you even if they don't agree with your choice
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Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 1:39 pm
for a while i was dating just pagans but not on purpose, they all just seemed to go that way.
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Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 4:33 pm
I've never a met a non-pagan who took my religion seriously. Most of them tolerate it but almost none of them take it seriously.
One guy used to leave his soda cups from fast food places on my altar. He didn't see what the big deal was because my gods "aren't real gods" and so it didn't matter. I've found that a distressing number of Christians feel this way. They don't try to preach or convert really but they treat you like a five year old who just has an imaginary friend.
I refuse to date anyone who can't acknowledge that my idea of divinity is just as real as theirs.
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Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 9:36 pm
it in ways makes it easier to date with in your beliefs.. My husband and I are both pagan just different sides. He is of native American (he is one) and I am a gypsy we work well and we have our separate things. However the man in my past who were not of the pagan/wiccan faith or just were because it was fashionable never took it seriously and didn't treat me with the respect I thought I should be when it came to holidays and my views like I was somehow less for the fact there wasn't a building for me to go to once a week and beliefs to have while I was there and then shun the rest of the week.. I judge people on who they are all the time not just the fact they say they are one thing once a week.
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Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 11:20 pm
that is a huge problem for me when people put crap on my altar!
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