Spouse before Deity

Submitted by Charlotte (United States), Jan 26, 2007 at 03:54

Agreed.

I can't imagine ever entering a marriage with someone who didn't love me as priority in his life. You can touch, feel, see, hear, experience your mate, something you can NOT do with God. I know alot of religionists feel that their deity must come before their mate. I don't agree, I think its selfish to put something you are not even sure exists before your spouse or children, which certainly do. For this reason, I could never marry a fundamentalist. I would consider it insulting to be lower down the totem pole than a "faith". If I loved anything more than my mate, I wouldn't bother to marry him in the first place.

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