A Philosophy Lesson on Love

Here’s an interesting question that I found on FB this morning:

Can atheist or agnostic fall in love with a theist person?

My answer was: They can, but I wouldn’t recommend it.

I didn’t go into a lengthy explanation on FB, but those of you who know me know that I’m about to:

When you’re getting married, or when you’re first married, the last thing that you need in your married life is another possible point of contention between you and your partner. Some of the most heated topics a person can bring up at the dinner table are money, politics and religion.

None of those has to become a bump in your marital road, if you communicate about those things and settle differences BEFORE you marry or simply walk away from the idea of marriage because of incompatible values.

It’s when partners aren’t open and above board in the BEGINNING of a relationship and FOR ALL TIME that they run into trouble, because believe it or not…….

LOVE DOESN’T CONQUER ALL.

Love is a really great start, because you can build a great marriage by taking from that love in order to have the strength to compromise and negotiate every aspect of that relationship. If you love someone enough, then maybe the compromise is to allow them to be their authentic self while you do the same.

Sometimes that means a religious wife allowing her Atheist husband to eschew going to Church in favor…