Shaquilleoatmeal
Protestant
No, it was a genuine question.
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Here is a completely honest answer: occasionally. I am much more religiously minded than my husband and it is incredibly important to me and less important to my husband. He also loves to tease me and banter and get me fired up (you lucky boys get to see that every now and then) over these topics.
Shaquilleoatmeal
Protestant
Ok. Fair enough.
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They're mostly the same. Whatever the differences in doctrine, I wouldn't expect Orthodox and Protestant would be wholly out of line with each other on marriage.
By the way I just want to circle back to this comment. The forum has 719 registered members (likely over 95% of them are male) currently are trying to imply none of them are good enough for your daughters? Why don't you at least give guys (not me but the Christian men on this forum) a chance to at least show their interest before prejudging them. There would be at least 100 members, maybe more on this forum that are active on the forum, male and Christian why don't you post a basic description and interested men can p.m. and express their interest. What do you have to lose?
Just something extremely basic that doesn't reveal personal info like "my daughter is in her early 20s, Protestant, without children and she lives in the state of Texas and she is looking for a husband. Christian men who are interested and want to know more feel free to send me a private message".
No sane person is going to offer their single daughter or sister to unvetted total strangers posting anonymously without photos on a fringe internet forum.
The only way this would remotely work is as a much later consequence of multiple in person meetups between male members who know and trust eachother in the offline real world.
So how do you think dating sites/apps work? The other person is essentially a complete anonymous stranger (albeit with photos). I am not saying anyone should agree to marriage straight off the bat. I am just saying the website could act as an initial point of contact for people to be introduced get to know each other after talking by phone then do real life meetups if they wish.
The reason I think its a valid idea is that at least in general people on the forum for the most part share a similar world view and have more in common than the typical strangers on dating apps have in common.
The conflict would be that one of the people would have to give up their church to raise their kids in the other person's church. If one gets married in the Orthodox Church, they're expected to raise their families in that church and it's the same for Catholics. That's why intra-faith marriages are usually discouraged (though not banned) mostly because it can add an extra layer of complications to a relationship. It could also work out just fine in some cases; it really depends on the couple.
This actually happened to me. I think it was on the old forum. A person had cousins in a foreign country, one that I had at least been to and I knew at least a bit about. I give the guy a lot of credit being trusting and actually being right about me. What was funny was that he claimed a cousin of his was, let's just call it, a very high rating. I spoke to people in the family, and I actually liked ALL of them - here's the thing - to make that kind of trip (which I might have done and might still just to see if I was wrong) the rating had to be closer to realistic than not, and obviously it was closer to just pedestrian, I'm sad to say, even though what I think came out of it was the salt of the earth people part. Just to give you an idea (these weren't named or numbered) but if the claim is that a girl is a 10, and she's a 6, it's gonna be hard for you to be like, "Yeah, I gotta get down there ASAP and follow up on this." If you know what I mean.