I'm a Christian, but my girlfriend is Atheistic

[Archaeopteryx]

Reread my last paragraph. That's why. The taboo isn't about protecting the faith so much as the eucharist. I didn't mean it in some vague spiritual way- it was meant to be taken literally. We take the eucharist literally as the body and blood and Christ. When one partakes of the eucharist then Christ is in them. Partaking unworthily can bring about death- and the divide is actually about protecting both parties. It's not about fear or inquiry/questions from non-believers.

I didn't feel that I was unworthy of partaking in the Eucharist by virtue of my partnership with a nonbeliever.

 

[seashale76]

I didn't feel that I was unworthy of partaking in the Eucharist by virtue of my partnership with a nonbeliever.

It's not about feelings. In Orthodoxy we don't eat or drink anything from midnight before partaking (sex is also included in this). We have to spend time in prayer. We have to have gone to confession recently. There have been quite a few weeks that I don't partake because I know I'm not prepared. Protecting the Eucharist is a real and serious thing with us. There are strict rules for priests too.

When you engage in relations with someone that isn't also a Christian you are endangering them and not just yourself. I know this means nothing to Christians that don't believe in anything other than memorialism, but some churches put this issue at the top of the list of things that are most important. It's the core of everything. If you can't be on board with this then you don't need to take communion.

 

[GracetotheHumble]

You have someone here equating nonbelievers with "darkness" and my post is singled out as rude?

2 Corinthians 6:14
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

John 3:19
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

John 1:5
And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

Matthew 4:6
The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.

Luke 1:79
To give light to them that sit in darkness.

John 12:46
I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.

Acts of the Apostles 26:18
To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.

Romans 2:19
And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness

Romans 13:12
The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

Ephesians 5:8
For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:

Ephesians 5:11
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

 

[Albion]

You have someone here equating nonbelievers with "darkness" and my post is singled out as rude?

It's not been "singled out." You were the one who raised the question about it possibly being rude.