If you were considering potential love interests, and found someone that caught your eye, (would you try / have you tried) to overcome their categorical refusal to date any agnostics/atheists?
Please elaborate...
No, if they don't want me as I am, then I don't want them.
I agree.
I'm with the ladies on this one.
Why waste time and energy? Plenty of singles here.
Ok, I'll try that. I'd love to meet a single agnostic/atheist female.
Works the other way for me. Regardless of how strongly I might be attracted, I see no point in trying to generate a true personal, romantic relationship with someone who believes that God takes care of everything and that our purpose on Earth is to be his servant.. R
No, life is too short. A friend of mine use to say "I don't bark up a dead dog's a$$" What I have found is that the believer will spend a lot of time trying to show me the error of my ways. And that is time that I can never get back, so why waste it?
I might have to use that, "bark up a dead dog's ass."...lol
I just cannot imagine "going after" someone with that many strikes against that person and I having a good relationship.
But then what I value, and what you value may be miles apart.
For ex, I treasure quiet, calm, anti-drama. Some folks enjoy heated discussions tho'.....
I think I understand your point, and I agree.
No. If their mind is that closed, I would not be interested in the first place.
No. They need to impress me, not the other way around.
Why? Wanting to date a religious person makes no sense.
In the past I would have should the phermones be that strong. Now as an elder I am wisened to the world ways. Phermones shmermones. I would pursue the zealot for reasons other than a traditional relationship. The zealot & the atheist might have whole universes of commonality other than a long term, monogomous, sexual relationship. There is a plethora of motives & raisone d' etre. Posterity is discovering this as we celebrate diversity & flexability. Conservatives wish to keep things as they are. Progressives see things that are not & seek remediation.
I don't want to be with somebody that doesn't want to be with me.
I cannot imagine such a scenario. If she is a believer and requires to be with another believer, then the whole thing is finished before it even starts. Sure, we could be friends - but a love interest who can't accept my world view? Deal breaker, right there.