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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was on Match.com many years ago. I started with listing my religion as "Atheist" from a menu of choices. I was not getting any interest at all. I was late 20s and relatively attractive. I changed it to "Catholic," but in the actual narrative, I stated that I was "raised Catholic" but was "no longer practicing." Suddenly I was flooded with messages and winks and requests for dates. Pretty crazy. [/quote]

I don't know whether people looking for a spouse want to raise their kids in a religion and think an atheist would make that hard, or whether it's atheists' reputation for aggression (yes, I know many of you are lovely, but some of you not so much, and who wants to take that chance I guess). I know both of these things were true in my marriage to an atheist.[/quote]

Aggression?? don't see that as a trait typical of the atheists I know.  Sorry if your atheist ex-husband was that way, but I'm guessing/hoping it wasn't a feature of his lack of supernatural beliefs.

Certainly, if you want to raise your children in a certain religion, you makes sense to marry someone of that particular religion.  Some atheists and people of other religions wouldn't care, but it's a safer bet if everyone's the same religion starting out.  You never know, though -- people do change along the way.[/quote]

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