Very Disturbing!!

Last night at our middle school sex/dating session, I asked the boys to list 8 "must have" qualities of a girl in order for them to consider "going out" with her. The second thing they listed (not in order of importance) was that she had to be religious, which I thought was good. However, they proceeded to tell me that it didn't matter what religion, Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, whatever. It didn't matter as long as they had belief in something. Now this comes mostly from kids who come from a church background. They didn't understand why it made any difference. I find this deeply disturbing. Has nobody talked to them about the importance of being with another person who is also a Christian? (this is assuming that they are a Christian in the first place) How can we expect marriages to last if our belief systems are not based on the same core beliefs? What is it then that our marriage is based on? Being in love? Sorry to tell you, but being in love (otherwise known as infatuation in my opinion) does not make a marriage last 50 years. Yes, it is most of the time what gets the relationship rolling, but ultimately does not keep 2 people together forever. I could write a ton more on this, but I don't think you want to read a dissertation on this topic.