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| | ==== Bible and interfaith marriages ==== | | ==== Bible and interfaith marriages ==== |
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| − | The Bible teaches Christians not to marry a non-Christian (The Bible also teaches a believer to stay married to a non-believer if you are already married).<ref>http://www.gotquestions.org/household-salvation.html</ref> | + | The Bible teaches Christians not to marry a non-Christian (The Bible also teaches a believer to stay married to a non-believer if you are already married).<ref>https://www.gotquestions.org/household-salvation.html</ref> |
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| | ==== Interfaith marriage statistics ==== | | ==== Interfaith marriage statistics ==== |
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| | [[Christian apologetics|Christian apologist]] Michael Caputo wrote: | | [[Christian apologetics|Christian apologist]] Michael Caputo wrote: |
| − | {{cquote|Recently the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life has published its mammoth study on Religion in America based on 35,000 interviews... According to the Pew Forum a whopping 37% of atheists never marry as opposed to 19% of the American population, 17% of Protestants and 17% of Catholics.<ref>http://creation.com/atheism</ref>}} | + | {{cquote|Recently the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life has published its mammoth study on Religion in America based on 35,000 interviews... According to the Pew Forum a whopping 37% of atheists never marry as opposed to 19% of the American population, 17% of Protestants and 17% of Catholics.<ref>https://creation.com/atheism</ref>}} |
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| − | [[Vox Day|Theodore Beale]] declared that according to the 2001 [[American Religious Identification Survey]] (ARIS) "more than half of all atheists and [[agnosticism|agnostics]] don’t get married."<ref>http://creation.com/atheism</ref> | + | [[Vox Day|Theodore Beale]] declared that according to the 2001 [[American Religious Identification Survey]] (ARIS) "more than half of all atheists and [[agnosticism|agnostics]] don’t get married."<ref>https://creation.com/atheism</ref> |
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| | == Atheism, Christianity and romance novels: Amazon statistics == | | == Atheism, Christianity and romance novels: Amazon statistics == |
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| | According to a Nielson study commissioned by the Romance Writers of America, in 2014, women made up 82% of romance book buyers.<ref>[https://www.rwa.org/p/cm/ld/fid=582 Romance Reader Statistics]</ref> | | According to a Nielson study commissioned by the Romance Writers of America, in 2014, women made up 82% of romance book buyers.<ref>[https://www.rwa.org/p/cm/ld/fid=582 Romance Reader Statistics]</ref> |
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| − | As of May 20, 2016, as far as books, Amazon.com has 38,859 search results for the term "Christian romance".<ref>[http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss/191-2357257-5380358?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Christian+romance Amazon - Christian romance]</ref> As of May 20, 2016, as far as books, Amazon.com has 32 search results for the term "atheist romance".<ref>[http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=atheist++romance&rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3Aatheist++romance Atheist romance - Amazon]</ref> | + | As of May 20, 2016, as far as books, Amazon.com has 38,859 search results for the term "Christian romance".<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss/191-2357257-5380358?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Christian+romance Amazon - Christian romance]</ref> As of May 20, 2016, as far as books, Amazon.com has 32 search results for the term "atheist romance".<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=atheist++romance&rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3Aatheist++romance Atheist romance - Amazon]</ref> |
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| | == Christian satire about atheism and romantic love == | | == Christian satire about atheism and romantic love == |