So I was fiddling with my profile on one of the dating sites I belong to, and I noticed that I had checked the box under religious preferences for “spiritual but not religious.” I realized that is something I had done ages ago for whatever reason. Maybe because it was non-threatening compared to my previous selection, agnostic.
That is at best disingenuous. I haven’t attended church services since I was 10. So I set it back to Agnostic and promptly forgot about it.
A few days later I call this lady I had been corresponding with for a week or two. The standard pre-first date screening call. We chat for a few minutes trying to get the rhythm of the conversation going. But she seems a little, well, forced. Then she asks if I had recently changed my religious preference on my profile. I had. She Is Not Happy.
It seems that she Goes To Church Every Sunday. A devout Christian woman who believes in god and Jesus. I mention that I don’t go to church but have no issues with anyone who does. It’s not my business to judge. But church is just not my thing. I’m a big one for letting people live their own lives in their own fashion and letting them believe whatever they want to believe.
I guess she didn’t feel the same way. We won’t be meeting.
Too bad, she seemed like such a lovely lady. Until we got to her intolerance.