The problem with theist/atheist unions isn't even necessarily the god thing, for me, but all the stuff it implies to me: the willingness to take something for granted, the willingness to do what you're told, even if what you're told makes no sense, the lack of critical self-analysis, a self-involved view of the world.
Leaving arguments about how the children are to be raised out of the equation, it is the implications that I think preclude that kind of relationship for me. That said, I have have known religious people (and I feel confident Saara in one of them) who are, in fact, self-analytic. I certainly didn't get the sense that she is blindly following someone else's words, but rather - for whatever reasons you and I might find inexplicable - she is following her own self-exploration.
She did tell me that one very important element of her faith is the constant struggle with doubt (and my friend John used almost exactly those words to describe his own faith).
I couldn't date anyone who didn't understand exactly where I am coming from when I say that you need a reason to think something, rather than reasons not to.
Of course, thinking deists do have reasons to believe what they believe. You and I may deem them bad reasons, but they are not the same as those of deists who simply spout "the truth" as they have been taught that it is by some authority. But you're right, I still wouldn't want to marry one.
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Implications
Date: 2007-02-27 02:05 am (UTC)Leaving arguments about how the children are to be raised out of the equation, it is the implications that I think preclude that kind of relationship for me. That said, I have have known religious people (and I feel confident Saara in one of them) who are, in fact, self-analytic. I certainly didn't get the sense that she is blindly following someone else's words, but rather - for whatever reasons you and I might find inexplicable - she is following her own self-exploration.
She did tell me that one very important element of her faith is the constant struggle with doubt (and my friend John used almost exactly those words to describe his own faith).
I couldn't date anyone who didn't understand exactly where I am coming from when I say that you need a reason to think something, rather than reasons not to.
Of course, thinking deists do have reasons to believe what they believe. You and I may deem them bad reasons, but they are not the same as those of deists who simply spout "the truth" as they have been taught that it is by some authority. But you're right, I still wouldn't want to marry one.