(June 28, 2020 at 7:12 pm)Abaddon_ire Wrote:(June 28, 2020 at 6:48 am)TaraJo Wrote: I've had this weird habit of dating lots of people from really religious backgrounds, going all the way back to when I was a teenager. Most of them I turned around and got them to change their religious beliefs; not intentionally, but I think the beliefs they previously held simply didn't hold up to the kinds of questions I was asking. Haven't really been with someone who stayed with any especially fundamentalist religions, especially not over the last decade or so where my very existence pisses off fundies.
It isn't a habit. It is a statistical likelyhood. Where ever you encounter a possible date, it is likely that they will be religious just by sheer weight of numbers. There are way more of them then there are of us. I will grant that the atheist/humanist/secular position is growing rather rapidly, but we are nowhere near the numbers the various religions can command. ("command" used intentionally)
Yeah, I've suspected that. Especially since I live in Oklahoma. Lots of churches around here. Lived in Texas from 2009-2016 and it's not much better there. Fortunately for me, I'm kinda forced to date pretty progressive minded guys and they're less likely to be especially religious or, at least, they're not dick-head fundamentalists about it. Before 2008 or so, I was pretty much open to all walks of life but, surprisingly, I still wound up in a long term relationship with someone from a pretty fundy background that went from 2011 until just this last March.
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"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama