Atheists, could you seriously date a religious person (and vice versa)?

Yes.

I'm not going to let a matter of faith stop me from being with someone or having children with someone if I actually care about them - that's ridiculous.

What religion their child should be raised as? How about none? A child shouldn't be raised as one religion or another - that's effectively brainwashing. A child should be raised and taught how to think properly, then left to make his or her own minds up - not influenced in any way by their parents' religion. That's what I'll be doing with my kids. I don't care if they want to be Sikhs or whatever, as long as it was their choice.

Ah, k.
I have attempted to plough through sections of the Seamus Heaney translation of Beowulf and picked up a few words. But with basically no guide to pronouncing it I'm very much left in the dark ages (oh ho ho...). I'm familiar with the rune Thorn, and slightly less so Eth so that's handy but the diphthongs (I think that's what they're called) confuse me. I don't know if I should pronounce each half separately or try and blend the two together or simply ignore one half (Like in AEthel/Athel, which I think means "noble")

I remember reading once about the meaning of "Wyrd" (could have spelt that a little wrong) and getting utterly bewildered by that one word. Can you enlighten me?

But don't you think that if you have children with somebody religious they'll want to raise your kids in that particular religion? That's where the big disagreement is.

Basically, the accent is half-Scottish, half-German. 'R' is always rolled with the tongue. 'Æ' is pronounced as 'ah;' 'Æþel' would be said as 'Aa-th-ell.' 'Y' is pronounced... well, that's a hard one; it's like 'U' in French, like a cross between 'er' and 'oo.' The letter 'Æ' is a letter in Anglo-Saxon, not a dipthong; it's the letter Æsh.

'Wyrd' is our own personal fate or destiny.

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Wow. I have so much admiration for you right now for being able to learn all of this

I wasn't sure whether to put this under society, religion or relationships so sorry if it's in the wrong place.

So the title basically. If you don't believe in God would you be able to have a serious relationship with someone who does believe in God? And if you do believe in God could you have a serious relationship with somebody who doesn't? Even if one or both of you plans to have children?

I ask because my Christian cousin has just announced that she plans to one day have a baby with her atheist boyfriend, and I just don't see how they would compromise on something as big as what religion their child should be raised as seeing as they both hold such opposing views.

You have to be baptised to get into Heaven, so why wouldn't your "bf/husband" want that to happen? If you don't believe in an afterlife, why wouldn't you let your child be baptised? It would have zero bearing on you.

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?