JD Vance recently told a packed college arena that he hopes his Hindu wife would someday convert to Christianity, thrusting into the spotlight the deeply sensitive challenges facing interfaith couples.

Experts who have counseled hundreds of couples who don’t share religious beliefs say the key is respect for each other’s faith traditions and having honest discussions about how to raise their children. Most agree that pressuring or even hoping the other would convert could prove damaging to a relationship, and all the more so for a couple in the public arena.

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[–] 7 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Playing make believe and having an imagonery friend as a grownup can't be healthy for either party.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    When religious people say:

    Without faith, what's stopping you from killing everyone?

    That should be a pretty good hint that some people need an imaginary friend.

    Stop fucking assuming that every other human is exactly like you, we get enough of that from republicans.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Even when that imaginery friend is making them kill everyone else? It's not the trans, degenerate people doing the genocides, it's the moral religious people. We can't keep playing along with these people imaginations.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    In 2025, yes, but like let's not pretend secular liberals and communist anti-thiests don't have their fair share of genocides. The proposal that religion especially encourages evil is historically ignorant.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Which is why the Greeks are still committing genocides now that we've all accepted that it's a mythology. Same goes for the vikings, now that we've accepted that as a mythology. It's Almost like there's a pattern here.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    Which is why the Greeks are still committing genocides now that we've all accepted that it's a mythology.

    Uh... yes?

    Same goes for the vikings, now that we've accepted that as a mythology

    Vikings aren't doing shit because they don't exist anymore; you'll see plenty of abhorrent behavior from later Scandinavians, especially related to colonialism.

    Besides, you say "still" but when was genocide a common aspect of Greek or Nordic society?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Same goes for the vikings, now that we’ve accepted that as a mythology

    You get that a lot of Neo Nazi white supremacists are hella into Norse religion right? There’s a reason someone listing “Asatru” on a dating profile is very sus.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Even when that imaginery friend is making them kill everyone else?

    ...

    What?

    If a gallon of milk is past the expiration date, do you throw out all the food in your home?

    Or so you realize that instead of all food being bad, it's just rotten food?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'm not saying we should kill all religious people. The fridge is broken. Stop putting new milk in it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    The fridge is broken. Stop putting new milk in it.

    ...

    So leave the rest of the food in the broken fridge?

    Like, I understand you're trying to disagree with me, but your updated version of the analogy has the same takeaway:

    Don't get rid of the concept of home refrigeration, just get rid of the broken one

    Did I just woosh and you are agreeing with me intentionally?

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