Would you date and marry someone with differing political or religious views?

[Craig234]

Edit: decided not to try to answer, I'm not clear enough.

 

[CPA]

My wife is religious, I am not. Not a problem for either of us.

 

[Cooler]

Yes to both.

 

[JellyBaby]

If you feel political orientation truly influences your relationship and your ability to love another person, then I'd risk to say your priorities are out of whack.

Alignment on religious and spiritual matters is more important but even here, if you dare to open up to contrary views, the absolute worst that can happen is that you just might learn something new.

Unless, of course, you pursue a cannibal and just can't stomach her religion. Fair enough, I'd say, but you never know, she might be interested in one of your cookbooks..

 

[child of wonder]

My wife was raised Mormon when we first met but she wasn't active. I'm a "nothing" when it comes to religion. I'm against organized religion but believe there is some kind of "god" or "force" out there.

I knew that she had to buck Mormonism for there to be any chance at our relationship working so I slowly started to expose her to what Mormons really believed and eventually she saw the light and stopped believing in that crap.

Then we got engaged and married.

 

[WhipperSnapper]

If you're an atheist male, you're gonna have a tough time finding an atheist female since male atheists outnumber female atheists (last I checked) and the female atheists are in demand by the male atheists. Fortunately for me, I scooped up one of the female atheists.

Years ago when I played the local printed personal ads (before the Internet had become real popular) I almost ended up going out on a date with a priestess; a gal who wanted to got to a seminary to become a priest. I told her I was an atheist and it didn't seem to bother me and the she told me her cup size. Maybe she was looking for some action. I probably should have made arrangemetns to meet her. She might have been good for a frolic. <Sigh> Opportunities lost...

 

[Gooberlx2]

I did marry someone with some different political views, but only on a few topics. I'm not religious, she is, it's not an issue. It would be if she felt she had to convert me or something.

 

[MiniDoom]

I did, doesn?t really mater to me. My wife is catholic, me Jewish/Rasta. We don?t sit around and talk about religion much. We are musicians so we like to make music and do other stuff. Spirituality is just something I usually keep to myself.

 

[Canai]

Political beliefs, sure why not.. I like a good argument 😉

As far as differing religious beliefs, I'm not so certain it would work out. I have little patience for ignorance and mindless conformity.