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Different beliefs.. can it work?

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escapeaa · 11/06/2022 08:19

I've been dating a lovely guy for around 4 months.
He is Christian, believes in a God, Heaven etc. His Father is a vicar.
I'm agonist/atheist and to some extent spiritualist. I don't believe in God at all.
It's never really been an issue. But can it really work if we have such different beliefs?

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pointythings · 11/06/2022 22:57

It depends. My husband was a non-churchgoing believer in some form of benevolent deity, from a family of very religious churchgoers. I'm an atheist. When we visited them (in the US) we went to church with them. We had the DC baptised because it would have broken my PILs' hearts if we hadn't. Religion was absolutely not the issue that destroyed us (that was alcohol).

It's much more difficult if one partner is very religious and insists on following their doctrine to the letter wrt to any children - especially where things like infant circumcision are involved.

BusterSword · 13/06/2022 18:23

@escapeaa

If you have children, would your husband want them to be raised Christian?

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