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In reply to the discussion: Would you marry a Scientologist? [View all]vi5
(13,305 posts)I'm an atheist. I come from a religious family. It's just too fundamental an element of one's person as far as I'm concerned. I also couldn't marry a Republican. What I love about my wife is how she sees the world, how she sees other people, what she sees as her purpose here, why she does the things she does, what she looks for in the people she surrounds herself. Religion and politics plays into all of that and if she were anything other than a liberal atheist I'd have a hard time jiving with it on a lifetime basis, as I would hope she would with me if she were sincere in her religious or political beliefs that were different than mine.
I also don't have any problem being alone, so I also couldn't fathom marrying someone who I wasn't 90-100% compatible with.
To be clear, I could marry someone who believed in god, and who was perhaps still somewhat religious as long as they were not devout.