(November 21, 2013 at 10:52 am)Drich Wrote: That's crap short sighted advice. What happenes when you add kids to the picture? One of the primary 'callings' for a Christian is to be united as man and wife and raise a faimly in worship of God. One of the primary 'callings' of an atheist is to point out to a christian how stupid he/she is for believeing in God. What happens when wifey wants to take the kids to church? One of them will have to compromise what he/she believes in order to make the other one happy.
There is no way around that, unless one changes. It is far more likly for the believer to be deconverted than for a hard hearted nonbeliever to be converted. Sherbert is going to take away the very thing that makes this woman who she currently is. The only question is, will he or she be able to live the next 50 years with the remaining husk.
I think that is what the others are saying, at least the ones telling him to find out if she's a devout Christian or just identifies as one to be part of the crowd. The former will likely not want to enter a relationship with a non-Christian, the latter may be much more willing to make compromises. As others have noted, there are such couples that manage to stay together for a long time.
"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
