Dating a christian in the south...

Does anyone else find it frustrating dating in the south? A few weeks ago a friend of mine set me up on a blind date/meeting with a friend of hers and it went great! She was awesome, we had a lot in common and we both had told our friend that we really wanted to see each other again. She even sent me something saying she wanted to hang out again, that is until she saw that was an atheist... After that she refused to go out with me again even though we both had a really great time together because of the simple face that I didn't believe in magic. I knew that she was very religious which I'm really not a big fan of but I would have tried to keep my religious beliefs out of it, I just don't understand why the religious can't do the same. I had given up on serious relationships until I move north or to Europe after college anyway but its still a little disheartening. Anyone else deal with this crap?

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Permalink Reply by Barry Eckert on January 14, 2012 at 11:39pm

The truly amazing thing to me is how many gay men have this same attitude. I have tried the online thing someone else mentioned, and an alarming number of men list themselves as Christian and at least somewhat serious about it. They usually won't reply to an "out atheist" (and I thought being out was a good thing, in both arenas). In any event, I am not really that interested in dating a theist anyway. I'm pretty sure it would get ugly at some point, no matter how "progressive" his cult happens to be.

OK, so your church doesn't say that gays are the spawn of Satan. They do expect you to buy that zombie Jesus stuff though, right? (And then I hear the door slam)

Permalink Reply by Barry Eckert on January 15, 2012 at 5:31am

Sorry to hear about your son. Hope y'all haven't had to endure any idiotic comments from the fundies about his accident being god's will and that sort of shit.Tragedy has a way of bringing out the really cruel streak in the pious.

Permalink Reply by Ethereal Sincoskie on February 12, 2012 at 2:22pm

I was very lucky and found an -on the verge of Atheist- Christian girl and kinds broke it to her...she cried overwhelmed a little bit but now she is much better off.

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