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That's a day negative 10 deal breaker. I can be casual friends with a "witch", but being in a relationship means I have to pretend I believe that stuff, and no one can keep up an act that long.
It's as fake as any religion. I mean it is kinda one, I think. I have very little awareness of it, I'm pretty sure witches and wiccans are different, but it's all beyond baloney, so I don't really care about the subtleties.
I mean... You don't have to believe someone else's beliefs to be in a relationship with them. It happens all the time. I work with a "witch" and she's like every other normal religious person. Wears a necklace, has a thing on her door, goes to work...
You don't have to pretend anything, I know quite a few couples where one partner is an atheist and the other one is a believer.
But how can you respect someone who legitimately believes in magic?
they're also human
Love is a chemical process, you can't really choose who you fall in love with. There are all kind of relationships, not all are based on respect.
Attraction is a chemical process, long term relationships without respect are doomed to failure
Don't forget that believing in a reality beyond the senses is a religion too. All atheists are solipsists.
I am an atheist and I am not solipsistic, therefore not all atheists are solipsistic.
I don't believe you're an atheist, because you believe in reality. That's religious thinking.
If you want to believe that belief in external reality to your senses requires a similar leap of faith that belief in unprovably extant supreme beings requires that's fine, but that's not what the word atheist means. That's not how people use it. They don't use it to refer to people who refuse to believe in things requiring faith (as in believing in something that can't be proven). It is used to refer to people who don't believe in gods.
Reality is god to realists. That's what they believe in. They worship it, they obey it, they demand others have the same respect for it. It's theism.
No.
Yes.