I..dont see why people shouldnt be allowed to date outside their religion. Its pretty rediculous and in a way discriminating.
Its not only Christians that do not allow such things, other major religions do not allow it either.
Organised religion is generaly wrong, it caused as much suffering in the world as hope...if not more.
Its nice to see so many people agree with the fact that dating outside ones religion is not wrong and perfectly acceptable, itsa shame that majority of people out there dont see it like that.
I, personaly don't really have a problem with dating out of religion, but I would rather marry someone who is the same religion as me, but it really counts on who I would rather get marries to. I woulndt want to date a satanist though, or someone of a different christian relgion, because alot of the other chirstian relegions are taught that catholics will all go to hell 😖
I can relate to some of the other people who have posted in here about dating inside relgion. When you have a kid, youve got to think about which relgion between the two of you you are going to bring them up in, or if they are going to be brought up unrellgious. One of my sisters friends, her parents are both of different religions, and they are all a happy family 🙂. But ive seen people get divorces because they couldnt find compatibility with each others relegion.
Note the second line below Fire's sig.
The part about not giving a Flying F*ck
But I don't care what Christianity says, It doesn't make my decisions for me. I make my own decisions, the bible doesn't make them for me.
I would date a Christian girl, IF she didn't try to impose her faith on me. If other people want to believe that, go for it. Same thing with gay marrage and abortion.
personally i am born christian and my girlfriend is asian, so she buddhist. it don't mean shit to me, we in love and see good in each other so why should belief even matter? she is as devoted as the next person, but it doesn't stop us being happy. i plan on marrying her, so i really think if you feel its wrong then you are putting your religion ahead of your personal happiness and thats just plain stupid.
Right. These would be Christian marriages failing that you are speaking about ? Because non-Christian unions are statistically far stronger.Perhaps if Christians based relationships on something like personality and sexual compatibility (not that you will know about that as a Christian till its waaay too late) rather than normally ill-defined and vague belief in scripture less marriages would be failing?
As many have stated, I dont know where the heck you get your statistics, but that aint right. As for Christians basing their relationships on "vague belief" thats not true either. As with any marriage, our marriages are based on love, but they are also strengthened by our relationships with our Lord. And as for sexual compatability, God will bless you with a good sex life.... it sounds weird but its true. God created sex, so why cant he have a say in it?
I dont expect you to really get where we're coming from, because you need to be a Christian and have a relationship to really understand what it's like for us.
[QUOTE][B]personally i am born christian and my girlfriend is asian, so she buddhist. it don't mean shit to me, we in love and see good in each other so why should belief even matter? she is as devoted as the next person, but it doesn't stop us being happy. i plan on marrying her, so i really think if you feel its wrong then you are putting your religion ahead of your personal happiness and thats just plain stupid.[B][QUOTE]
Being "born a Christian" means nothing in the grand scheme of things. Being born into a Christian family doesnt make you a Christian any more than sitting in a garage makes you a car. 🙂 so there.
Personally you dont sound very much like a Christian person and I think that you really need to be a strong Christian to understand what I;m talking about.
Originally posted by Mr Zero
The (US) National Centre for Health Statistics & The Census Bureau both provide divorce stats if you are interested. The incidence of divorce is on the rise - set at around 43% in 2001. If you extrapolate the trend then it's thought that the current rate of divorce stands at around 50%.According to the last survey done (by Banna strategic research) Christians do tend to have a higher incidence of divorce. It breaks down as (approximately) divorces within the total of marriages in their group: Born-again Christian 27%, Evangelical Christian 25%, Christian, but not born again, 24%, Mormon 24%, Atheist/agnostic 21%.
I may strongly disagree with you and your choices, but I hope I didn’t sound disrespectful of your beliefs - hell look at the rest of this thread to see what that kind of butthole behavior looks like.
Well duhhhhh..... more then 70 % of the country is some for of christian belief 😂 they are a dominant majority and of course statisitically they will have a higher divorce rate. Only less then 10 percent are athesit but your saying 21 percent of them are divorcing 😱 that is far more 😂
Originally posted by RaventheOnly
Well duhhhhh..... more then 70 % of the country is some for of Christian belief 😂 they are a dominant majority and of course statisitically they will have a higher divorce rate. Only less then 10 percent are athesit but your saying 21 percent of them are divorcing 😱 that is far more 😂
Do you understand what a percentage is ?
Lets say (for e.g. to keep things simple) that out of a total of 1000 people 700 are Christian and 100 are atheists - (with the rest being chicken worshipers or some-such.)
so 25% of 700 = 175 weeping Christians damned to hell.
& 21% of 100 = 21 atheists ready to move on up.
The Percentage is lower, the final amount of people is lower. Please tell me where this "that is far more" comes from because I'm having trouble with your math.
Re: Christians dating out of faith
Originally posted by Yesterdays Gone
what do you all think of dating outside ofy our faith? because according to the Bible, its wrong, but yet you should stay with the person you love...
I feel it's very important to date INSIDE your faith. The reason being, it would separate you too much. examply: you're a christain, your mate is Atheist, now just how would that work out?
It wouldn't he's going to be telling you it's nonsense, you're going to be trying to prove it's not, it would be a battle all the time between you two, why risk that? 😉
Originally posted by Mr Zero
So God never sends someone without faith to someone with faith?Where did you learn that?
I said: If you're a christian, and you're praying for that special one to come into your life, he will send the right person to you, and you will agree on your faith.
well...why would God send you someone that you will fight with about your religion? somewhere you will find away to agree 🙂
Re: Re: Christians dating out of faith
Originally posted by Fiery Eyes
I feel it's very important to date INSIDE your faith. The reason being, it would separate you too much. examply: you're a christain, your mate is Atheist, now just how would that work out?It wouldn't he's going to be telling you it's nonsense, you're going to be trying to prove it's not, it would be a battle all the time between you two, why risk that? 😉
WRONG!
I had a 3 year relationship with a girl who was a Christian, I, of course, am an Atheist. There were very very few problems caused by our different beliefs, we were together for other aspects. I respected her views and didn't try to push mine onto her, she respected my views and gave me the same courtesy. It's not a problem if both people just accept that the other person simply has different ideas.
Right now, I am dating a Budhist, again, no problems are arising from this.
Re: Re: Re: Christians dating out of faith
Originally posted by BackFire
WRONG!I had a 3 year relationship with a girl who was a Christian, I, of course, am an Atheist. There were very very few problems caused by our different beliefs, we were together for other aspects. I respected her views and didn't try to push mine onto her, she respected my views and gave me the same courtesy. It's not a problem if both people just accept that the other person simply has different ideas.
Right now, I am dating a Budhist, again, no problems are arising from this.
Exacty, YOU respected her views, not everyone is like that, it depends how strong willed they are in their belief, most will try to convert the other. 🙂
I just don't agree w/dating outside your belief.