Consideration of Religion and Spirituality in Online Dating at Consonance (Gleichklang)

How Consonance (Gleichklang) Integrates Religious and Spiritual Beliefs into Partner Search and Matchmaking

“In a world where false religions fight each other, you should not be alone, but be together in a humane way.”

Dating, Spirituality, and Religion at Consonance (Gleichklang)

All members of Consonance share the commitment to a solidary, humane, and ecological world. This is what connects the Consonance community together. Religious differences, by contrast, may exist.

• At Consonance, the members themselves decide whether they wish for friendship matchmaking or matchmaking according to religious attitude, spiritual principles, or religious faith or not:
• For some members, the consideration of religion and spirituality in their online dating is very important because for them religion, spirituality, or attitudes toward religions shape their everyday life, and they desire commonality in this area in a relationship.
• Other members, in their partner search or friendship search, disregard possible religious or spiritual differences because they can integrate them well into a relationship as long as central ethical values and life ideas harmonize with each other.

Religions and Spirituality at Consonance (Gleichklang)

Members with the most diverse religious ideas, attitudes, or beliefs come to Consonance. As long as there is the tolerance that connects all members toward different lifestyles and ways of thinking, members of all religions, spiritual beliefs, or attitudes toward religion are warmly welcome with us.

Not welcome at Consonance are fundamentalists and hate preachers, regardless of which religion they belong to. After all, we are a dating platform that emphasizes diversity and inclusion, which also includes advocating for the complete equality of all genders, gender identities, and legitimate sexual orientations.

We observe a diversity of attitudes toward spirituality and religion among our members:

• Represented among Consonance members – in alphabetical order – are atheism and agnosticism, Bahai, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Shintoism, or Eastern, Western, free, or integrative spirituality.
• Meditation, contemplation, and yoga are very common among Consonance members.
• Many members feel drawn to several religions or spiritual teachings, which can easily be indicated in our surveys. There is a rather Western religious cluster (Christian, Jewish, Muslim), an Eastern religious cluster (Buddhist, Hindu, Shinto), the predominant affirmation of esotericism, the affirmation of a single religion, or the critical stance toward all forms of religion and spirituality.
• Atheists mostly also rate agnosticism positively, although there are also some atheists who rate Buddhism positively.

Matching in Online Dating at Consonance (Gleichklang)

• We record the religious and spiritual orientations of our members and let our members decide for themselves whether these should play a role in matchmaking or friendship search or not.
• If the consideration of religion or spirituality is important to members in their partner search or friendship search, we ensure through our psychological matching that like-minded people find each other. We respect and support that for some people it is personally important to share the religious or spiritual attitude with relationship partners.
• We equally respect and support it when members hold the view that everyone can find salvation in their own way, without wanting to restrict themselves in their partner search or friendship search with regard to religion or spirituality.
• Thus, in matchmaking and friendship matching, we can introduce members to each other who agree on central basic beliefs and can thus build something shared together.

Religious or Spiritual Dating App at Consonance (Gleichklang)

The difference between Consonance and religious or spiritual dating apps, singles sites, or matchmaking services is that we do not limit ourselves to a single religion or attitude toward spirituality, but place the focus on diversity and inclusion.

How strongly members want to focus their partner search or friendship search on getting to know religiously or spiritually like-minded people is decided by the members themselves.

What connects all Consonance members is the ecological, sustainable, and humane orientation of our dating community. Within our dating community, people with different religions and attitudes toward spirituality can move and get to know each other.

There is no place at Consonance for right-wing esoteric positions. Ideas based on racial theory, antisemitism, separation of peoples, antifeminism, homophobia, or transphobia are not compatible with a partner search or friendship search at Consonance.