Lonelypacifist6:
There's a girl on Nairaland whose an atheist you probably know her.

cooooooks:
Are any free thinkers, agnostics, atheists, etc here dating/married in Nigeria or dating/married to Nigerians?

How was the journey and what advice do you have?

Serious thread.

Kobojunkie:
Journey to what exactly?

nobaga:
How do you expect anyone from the most religious country in the world to admit to such when most of them including their Pastors and Imams are hustlers.

Most if not all do not believe in God like the Christians and Muslims that lie to them.

Dollar is god.

cooooooks:
The journey of navigating the religion issue. Was your partner also irreligious? Are you "unequally yoked"? How about parents and extended families?

Kobojunkie:
Navigating what religion issue? You mean dating or marrying a religious partner? But why do that at all? Why get involved with that kind of headache at all?

jesus Christ, the one who Christians actually obey, have His followers freedom where it concerns marriage, only stipulation is equality...in marriage a man is equal to his wife, no such thing as one being head over the other. Paul's statement on being un-equally yoked is grossly misconstrued by the religion, but then that is what many religious folks tend to do a lot of. :

As for family, marriage is a partnership between a man and a woman. So they get to decide what their dealings with extended family will be, this as a couple.

cooooooks:
Nigeria is uber-religious, albeit nominally. The thread is a space for people who have navigated the marrying waters.

If a Nigerian wakes up and arbitrarily removes all nominally religious people from consideration, they would be left with a very shallow pool to choose from. This is before considering other, more important, issues: compatibility, general good-naturedness, actual attraction.

Your interpretation of Paul's letter (the actual founder of the religion) is not the majority, a strong minority. People will still generally come up against "unequally yoked" mantra; even if they are a different 'type' of Christian.

I do think marriage is a partnership regardless of religion/or lack thereof.

Lollittaa:

Paul wrote many books, but Christ is the founder of Christianity. He called himself "The Way" and when Christianity spread outside Isreal, early Christians were called "followers of the way" even before Saul was converted. And if you'll say Saul is the founder, how come he had to report to James the Great, half brother of Jesus and the apostles at Jerusalem? Catholics might argue Peter was in charge, but it was actually James who was in charge. Never Saul-Paul. If it were, historians like Josephus would have attested to his leadership.

cooooooks:
The first books were written by Paul. The only person who claimed to have seen Jesus, and put their name there, was Paul. Even then, it was a vision.

Lollittaa:

you should read the writings of Josephus. There was a physical, literal Jesus. Not saying this because I'm a Christian. Just like confucius, Mohammed, these people lived and walked this earth. Jesus existed and Rome killed him.

cooooooks:
I've read of Josephus.

Many scholars contend that Josephus never mentioned Jesus.

Watch/read works by Bart Ehrman (New Testament scholar) or/and Tovia Singer (Jewish Rabbi/scholar).

Lollittaa:

you read of Josephus. But did you read his writings? Besides Flavius Josephus who was a Jewish historian, Gaius Tacitus, a roman historian, also mentioned a "Christus" and Christians who were named after him. .

cooooooks:
There were many Christus in those times.

Mere mentioning isn't proof of anything.

Nne, I've heard all these arguments. The best Apologists generally fail to be convincing.

Lollittaa:

I'm not even trying to convince you. I'm stating a fact. There were many Christus. And many people were executed on the cross. But one man, one Christus, executed on the cross, sparked a new movement.
Historians wrote for a reason. To document facts so those coming after can read of what happened in days gone by.
Two things are involved. Either they both lied. Or they told the truth. You can say Josephus was favourably biased, since he an Israeli. How about Tacitus who was a Roman, who wasn't even a Jew.
Facts are facts.
I'm only responding to your earlier submission that Paul was the founder of Christianity.

cooooooks:
This discussion is derailing the thread (thread was for relationships not the historicity of Jesus).

The documentation for the Bible is very poor by historical standards.
Tacitus' reliability is also largely questioned for many reasons. Not least of which is the fact that he was in Rome, not Jerusalem, Galilee, etc.

You could create another thread for the historicity.