(July 5, 2013 at 7:16 pm)Stan Wrote: Yes I am, problem is you can't really define how hardcore one is because, in my experience, mediocre theists don't really want to talk about this and/or keep their ears shut. The main problem comes onto the scene when it gets serious and parents (and their beliefs) get in the way.
If she is truly hardcore about her beliefs, she would not be serious about a relationship once she found out you were an atheist, unless she decided that it was her duty/fate to convert you. That can't end well, IMO. But it should be easy enough to find out.
If the relationship progresses enough, you'll have to have a serious heart-to-heart about it. Lots of religious people see religion as just another routine in their lives, and will have practically no issues getting along with an atheist. But you'll want to know for sure before you take the relationship any further.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
