Quote:Expecting him to change is probably not a realistic option.
^This. When getting into a relationship, you should look to the long term and try to determine if the person seems like someone you can tolerate over a long period. Going into a relationship with hopes of changing a person usually ends in disappointment.
As far as my experience, I dated a theist, and then I married her. She, however, is as passive of a theist as they come. She doesn't go to church, and the only religious rules she follows is not eating meat on Friday during Lent. We've gotten along just fine, but if she was a hard core, evolution denying bible thumper I don't think it would have happened.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
