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ORIGINAL: petitespitfire64

I find it disturbing that niether of my Masters believes that a "God" exists, but it certainly doesn't make me have less respect for them or want to be with them any less. I practice my own spirituality and leave them to thiers.
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spitfire,

Both??? Now thats not fair when there are so many without. grins, Thanks for your input.

CP

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ORIGINAL: leadership527

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ORIGINAL: CelticPrince
Question: How important is religion when determining a potential match for yourself?

Not at all.  I am fairly non-spiritual.  That being said, I recognize that as a valid slice of the human existence and I'd generally think of it as neutral to positive if someone had a healthy, beneficial spiritual existence.  Predictably though, anyone who felt that they were compelled to impart those same blessings on me I would consider an inappropriate selection.

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ORIGINAL: Roselaure

The only thing that would give me a problem would be if my partner were very religious and tried to make me believe as he did.  Otherwise I can accept his belief if he can accept my lack thereof.

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ORIGINAL: CelticPrince

Question: How important is religion when determining a potential match for yourself?

CP

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ORIGINAL: CelticPrince


Question: How important is religion when determining a potential match for yourself?

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ORIGINAL: CelticPrince

we are a homogenious mix here with our individual kinks and chemistry criteria in search of "the match" that will make us viable D/s couple. We also come from a wide range of religious backgrounds that may or may not have been kept current. The mix is well represented here and sometimes mentioned in profiles and sometimes not. There are Wiccans, Methodist,Catholics, Jewish, Pres, and Baptists and a few others.

Question: How important is religion when determining a potential match for yourself?

CP

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ORIGINAL: KatyLied

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Question: How important is religion when determining a potential match for yourself?

It's not important to me.  Unless it's something a potential match felt he had to dominate me into doing.  At that point he'd see the "hard limit" sign.

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ORIGINAL: NihilusZero

It's important to the degree of attachment in the partner. I'm an atheist (technically, I'm an existential nihilist, but that's not the point....) and would likely not blend well with anyone who is heavily attached to their religious/spiritual dogma.

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How many signs do you carry?

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ORIGINAL: Twicehappy2x

Why?

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Do i still practice my family religion? Absolutely, taught it to my children when they were small, they are teaching theirs, though they will not force it on them.

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ORIGINAL: Twicehappy2xScooter and Jewel support my beliefs, Both have went out of their way to procure things i needed/wanted in pursuit of my religious obligations.

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ORIGINAL: Twicehappy2xThe trick is we NEVER force our beliefs on one another. Or anybody else for that matter. We can talk about our individual beliefs, answer and ask questions politely. Without attempting to force any one true wayism on another human being.

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ORIGINAL: littlewonder

While religion isn't important to me, spirituality is. We have to share a spiritual connection. Our belief system has to be very similar so that our morals, values and ethics are in line with one another.

If we don't share in that then we wouldn't be compatible along any lines whatsoever.

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ORIGINAL: IvyMorgan

Today was harvest festival at my local church.  Being a)traditional and b)rural, we do harvest in a very enthusiastic way.  As a church festival goes, it tends to be quite pagan in overtones, with a very heavy slant towards Tanak references, especially Deuteronomy 26 and traditional Jewish practices.

So, I've spent the day marvelling about how we can smoosh it all together quite well, and likening Christianity to the Borg.  Resistance being futile, for your religious practices will be assimilated and rebranded...

But, during the sermon this evening (evensong, as a service, rocks!) the idea of religious compatibility wandered into my head.  I am toying with the idea of thinking about pursuing the possibility of a relationship with someone.  (Yeah, very non committed, seed type phase right now)  But, I know they do not share my religious views.  I'm fine with this.  I don't believe in pushing my religion on other people (but my love of poetry in hebrew is a whole other matter, if only because of the general level of geeky excitement; I just bombard you with it until you relent, war of attrition and boy golly, you will submit to the enthusiasm like a high school pep rally).  We do share similar spiritual views (my religion and my spirituality being separate things, for the most part).  I guess I was just wondering, idly, as I listened to how covenants aren't contracts (erm, no) in a sermon where this would mean we ended up.

I guess religion itself, either orientation or practice, isn't important, but acceptane of mine is.  (Evangelical Christians, therefore, need not apply *smiles*)

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Question: How important is religion when determining a potential match for yourself?

CP

Religion is irrelevant, as I am of a religious path that is so rare that I -literally- know every single practitioner worldwide, and have trained a third of them. OTOH, this pretty much -requires- that the people who are going to interact with me for an extended period of time have an open mind and are willing to accept the eccentricities that are part and parcel of my path. If they can't do that, there is no hope for them in our household. I personally think that it is important to be spiritually connected, but I don't really feel any pressure to require them to express that connection in any particular way.

Our poly family and House itself is very diverse. Aside from my own path (Illuminance Fellowship), which has 3 practitioners in the House, we have a classic Taoist, a pagan, two agnostics, a non-denominational Christian, a Voudoun, a Catholic, and a semantic divinist.

Calla Firestorm

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ORIGINAL: Twicehappy2x
Do i still practice my family religion? Absolutely, taught it to my children when they were small, they are teaching theirs, though they will not force it on them.

Indoctrinating children, whose minds are open doors to assimilating new knowledge, into a religion is an act of forcing it upon them.
 

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ORIGINAL: Twicehappy2xScooter and Jewel support my beliefs, Both have went out of their way to procure things i needed/wanted in pursuit of my religious obligations.

Can you support an apotemnophiliac's wishes/desires without actively wanting to be in a relationship with one?
 

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ORIGINAL: Twicehappy2xThe trick is we NEVER force our beliefs on one another. Or anybody else for that matter. We can talk about our individual beliefs, answer and ask questions politely. Without attempting to force any one true wayism on another human being.

This will get into a discussion that has nothing to do with the OP before long (atheism is not a set of beliefs...it is implicitly a lack thereof).

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ORIGINAL: KatyLied

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Question: How important is religion when determining a potential match for yourself?

It's not important to me.  Unless it's something a potential match felt he had to dominate me into doing.  At that point he'd see the "hard limit" sign.

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ORIGINAL: CelticPrince

Calla,

Thanks for your input, but how in the hell do you keep up with such a large "family"

CP