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laurenclaire1386 · October 2009

Do you and FI/DH/SO practice the same religion? If you don't, is it ever a point of contention in your relationship?

crfische · October 2009

We're Christian. And not the Catholic kind. So we're all good in the hood.

kikibaby · October 2009

Yes... none. Would not work well if one of us WAS religious.

Sooles · October 2009

we both practice ignoring all religion.

Mrs.B6302007 · October 2009

yes

ricksang · October 2009

Yes, we are both Atheists.

bbyckes · October 2009

We don't practice any religion right now. We consider ourselves Christian, specifically, Baptist. No point of contention.

vallyhoo · October 2009

Yes

Brie2010 · October 2009

Kind of. We are both Christians, but he is a Southern Baptist and I'm a United Methodist. We attend both churches now and again but are leaning towards sticking with the Methodist thing. It's not really a point of contention, I just find the Baptist services a little too fire and brimstone for my taste. FI is fine with the Methodist services.

SwedishChick2011 · October 2009

I'm Protestant and he's Catholic. It's not really an issue now, but I don't know exactly what we're going to do if we have kids.

mandysmear · October 2009

We both went to catholic school. I am atheist. He's christian/catholic (non-practicing). We don't argue. He knows that I wouldn't want any spawn to be baptized until the were old enough to make the choice themselves. He's okay with it. My husband doesn't have a strong personality or opinion, he's incredibly easy going, so I can't see us having any issues relating to religion or politics ever.

baystateapple · October 2009

I'm Catholic, he was raised Catholic but is now agnostic. It wasn't that big a deal until we started going to pre-cana. Now it's kind of...ugh. Just a lot of talking and trying to get on a common ground. Struggle, but it will be worth it.

brookelynpaisley · October 2009

Yes in that we were both raised Catholic and are now both agnostic (with me leaning further to the atheist side).

TiDa2009 · October 2009

No. I have no faith/religion and FI does, but he isn't overly active with his religion, so it works for us.

jamm2019 · October 2009

Ditto Sooles!

alixzafiris · October 2009

Nope. I practice none (technically I'm Greek Orthodox, but I much prefer Agnostic), he can be called Anglican I suppose. I don't know, really.This was the religious part of our wedding:[img]http://i837.photobucket.com/albums/zz296/alixandjay/11443_183114596776_512956776_336007.jpg[/img]

laurenclaire1386 · October 2009

To answer my own poll, FI is an atheist and I'm a Methodist. We knew this going in and it's never been a problem. We made the agreement early on that I wouldn't try to change his mind if he didn't try to change mine. As far as kids go (we don't have any, but plan to), we've agreed to expose them to religion, and then it's up to them to decide what they think is right when they get to an appropriate age to do so.

LesPaul · October 2009

Yes, we do. The only point of contention has been frequency of attendance at services.

alixzafiris · October 2009

(that would be me trying my damndest, no pun intended, to restrain my giggles)

MeaghanandMichael · October 2009

H is no religion. He was raised getting rpesents on Christmas and Easter but they never went to church, said grace or prayers or even told Bible stories. I was raised, and still am Catholic. If there is any contention it is with the fact that I think the way he was raised was very dishonest. I get really made at his mother for teaching him about Santa and presents and not a lick about baby Jesus. If you don't want to teach your kid about baby Jesus then you don't get Santa either in my book.W ehave no problems currently though and he wants to raise out kids in the church.

ring_pop · October 2009

Yes, we're both Catholic. We have had disagreements because we actually believe slightly different things, but we more or less learned to debate those without fighting. It's actually been a great experience for me because I've learned a lot about my faith through these debates with him.

[Deleted User] · October 2009

we don't. if either of us did, we probably wouldn't be together.

missy68 · October 2009

Yes and no. I haven't attended a church regularly in several years, but I am United Methodist. DH doesn't attend but isn't a non-believer. It's the organized religion and interpretation that bothers him. No, no point of contention.

bbyckes · October 2009

If FI and I have a child together I don't know what we'll do about religion. We don't go to church, don't really have plans to go in the future and our children get their fill of religion from their other parents.I'm just not into some of the "bible stories" and would have a hard time repeating them.

kschwedic · October 2009

Yes.

scoetto · October 2009

we both practice ignoring all religion.This. And our mothers know this. HowEVER. J's mom made it a point to ask my Uncle (a practicing man of the cloth who agreed to do a non-religious ceremony) to do a religious ceremony AND (not only that) to use "the family Bible" which J & I found out the next day was OUR new family Bible with our wedding date, our vow renewal date & our names engraved on it. And we don't practice religion. Unless you count sports as a religion, then yes, we're both very religious in that respect.

salt78 · October 2009

Yes we do. It's no religion.

impslave · October 2009

I'm a Buddhist and FI is a childhood Catholic (he stopped going to church when his mother couldn't force him anymore).The only problem we had is that FMIL wasn't happy that I refused to have a church wedding, but FI backed me 100% and it's no longer an issue.

tenofcups4me · October 2009

We were brought up in different religions (him, Methodist; me Jewish), but neither one of us practices anything. We join my family for Jewish holidays (in a family gathering for dinner way) and his for Christmas, though no others. Our basic spiritual approach is similar and we have no fundamental differences in our beliefs. Sometimes we do have some cultural disconnects, but nothing major. I WOULD have a problem being with anyone who actively practiced any religion, even if it was Judaism.

sarabellam · October 2009

I'm a Whiskeypalian, my husband is a non-practicing Whiskeypalian. He will go on a rare occasion, but mostly not. Since my dad is a priest, he's the one who actually married us.

eastunder1 · October 2009

We are both agnostics, so yeah I guess.

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