Atheist dating a catholic

But after a few initial pleasantries, he got stuck in. He was as intrigued by me as I was by him. When I walked into the restaurant, I was delighted to find a handsome, well-dressed man sitting waiting for me.

Our discussions went on by email for days and, on the basis that any interest in faith was better than none, I decided that it couldn’t hurt to meet for dinner. We struck up a spirited conversation based around my continued faith and his utter despair at everything he once held sacred. I had been single for a while when, during a brief flurry on a dating site, I began chatting with a guy who just happened to have recently renounced his entire belief system. But in many ways that would have been a shame, because my attempt at romance with a former Catholic turned aggressive secularist probably taught me more about myself than anything else that happened to me in 2015.

If I had known the way the evening would turn out, I would not have gone on a blind date with an atheist.