Interesting topic. I could never do that, I'm an atheist and I don't see how I could ever be anything different - I'd be lying to myself and the other person. That being said I was going to "subscribe" to a religion (any Christian one I emailed the Lutheran Church asking how to become Orthodox and vice versa thanks to an email cockup) to have a Church wedding, but I was planning on just renouncing it a week or so later.

My friend and housemate is a religious nut and he was telling me that he gave his girlfriend an extra 12 months (she doesn't know this), and if at the end of it she shows no signs of converting to Christianity, he will not continue the relationship.

The way I see it, he's an idiot for that and is being cruel for her. You have to think about the future yes, but if you fall in love with someone you do so warts and all, so to speak. In other words, if someone is not a Christian it's probably not going to be kept a secret, so why should you expect them to change later. You might not even love that person after they become a Christian, since it might change so many other aspects of their personality.

There's a religious and non-religious view then