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Originally Posted by DuffMan
I would never marry a religious girl, never.
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Of course you wouldn't, but the reason is likely neurological more than anything. In other words, we are all "preconditioned" by a variety of physical and sociological factors to make the choices that we make. "Compatibility" absolutely depends upon a conciliation of specific "beliefs", "convictions" and "desires" that disqualify most people from crossing the religious/areligious divide, unless they are already situated fairly close to the centre. I suspect based on your posting history that you are pretty strongly non-religious. For the same reason, no equally strongly religious person would ever consider marrying an areligious spouse. As a matter of fact, in my own Evangelical upbringing we were virtually forbidden from marrying outside of "the Church", and we all possessed a fairly precise definition of those who constituted "the Church".
By the way, has anyone read
Michael Shermer's The Believing Brain? This is a must-read for all interested in psychological explanations for how and why we form opinions and ideas.