(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.
You dipshit. Marriage is all about compromise, which is, in fact, what I have done when my wife wanted to get my son baptized. Our marriage is still strong as ever, and neither of us has "died inside."
(November 21, 2013 at 10:52 am)Drich Wrote: 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.
Don't you think it's funny that all of the supposed "anti-god" atheists are the ones saying it's not a big deal? It's we heathens that are supposedly so filled with hate towards Christianity saying to go for it, and the only one talking about changing who she is is you. So much for that atheist intolerance.
Religion doesn't have to be the divisive factor in a relationship that you're advocating it is, but I would suspect that someone so obsessed with religion wouldn't understand that.
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
