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D. McDonagh said:
I have yet to hear of anyone being foircibly converted to atheism in order to get married, to pick an example.



Marriage is a choice (unless you live in the Middle East, the Ozarks, or a few mobile-home parks I've driven by), and if you desire to spend the rest of your life with someone, then you're willing to do what it takes to make that happen. You don't like that, do what I do. Stick to a potential mate who has the same fundamental beliefs you do. There's nothing wrong with differences of opinion on minor doctrinal points of order. But if you've decided to enter into a social contract with decidedly 'religious' connotations, what's the point of going through all that trouble if you don't agree with those connotations in the first place?

And as I've been saying, you can't be forcibly converted to anything. In this country, at least, you get to decide for yourself. It just means you might not always get your way because of it. I'm not in a position to address other societies because I'm not part of them and wouldn't be able to speak with the same sort of credibility.

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