Religon In a relationship.

[SlowsterCivy]

Good thread and good replies. Me and my girlfriend just had a little falling out this past weekend on this exact subject. I'm going to throw in my situation just to try and get some more opinions on the subject matter.

First off, I'm pretty much agnostic. My girlfriend, however, is a Jehovah's Witness. First off, no they're not a cult. I've been to their meetings and they're just another Christian denomination who take the Bible in a very literal sense. A lot of their beliefs are standard Christian bits. The problem I forsee, however, comes in a some things that I foresee happening in the near and distant futher. She's starting to get pretty into it so I'm getting worried. Here are some things we disagree on.

1) No sex before marriage.
I'll admit that I'm a sexaholic. Nothing wrong with that. However, as with most religions, hers doesn't agree with sex before marriage so she said she wants to stop. Kinda urking for me, but I think I can make it if I start to stockpile the porn. I can't help but feel, however, that in the future the love-making is really going to take a backseat as she gets more and more involved with the religion. That's not exactly something that I'm looking forward to.

2) No Christmas / Thanksgiving / Birthdays
This is more in future tense than anything. Jehovah's Witnesses don't believe in celebrating the Americanized Christmas, Thanksgiving, or even regular birthdays. They find them all to be some form of idol worship. I'm not sure the specifics, but that's their thing. While it doesn't bother me concerning my won birthday, if we have kids, I'll be d@mned if I don't celebrate my kid's birthday and let them have birthday parties. Same thing for Christmas morning.

3) Children's Upbringing
This kind of ties in with the whole holiday/birthday thing. I WILL have kids of my own one day. I'm scared, however, of how our kids will be taught and raised if me and her do get married and settle down. I'm all for the kids finding their own beliefs, but I can't be feel that she'll subconciously push them towards the Christian system. I'm not sure how I feel about that.

There are more topics, but these are the primary ones that urk me. I love her to death, but I question whether or not we're going to be alright spending the rest of our lives together if we get that involved. We've been together almost 2 years now and to just cut bait now seems a bit...impractical and even less diserable.

I mean your number 1....if it's her religion....and she wants to stop....did she just become a Jehovah's witnesss after the fact? How is she....any religon that doesn't agree with sex before marriage if she's been having sex???

[Ran]

I mean your number 1....if it's her religion....and she wants to stop....did she just become a Jehovah's witnesss after the fact? How is she....any religon that doesn't agree with sex before marriage if she's been having sex???

She was a Witness growing up, but then fell out of the faith. She's recently decided to clean herself up and get back into it so the rules are coming back into effect.

[SlowsterCivy]

She was a Witness growing up, but then fell out of the faith. She's recently decided to clean herself up and get back into it so the rules are coming back into effect.

Oh geez. She should have thought that one through before she decided to sex with ya. That's kind crappy "sorry hun no more sex" i'm cleaning myself up, lol, oh yeah guys really wanna hear that one!