Would you break up with someone because of their religion?

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No I wouldn't break up.

I wouldn't date them in the first place.

Interesting. People who convert to a religion often go through a phase of of being a strong advocate, it can manifest as a missionary zeal or as a form of fundamentalism. I've often advocated that atheism is a belief system as strong and as dogmatic as any other religion. Your experiences support that contention.

Thanks for sharing.

No, unless she were a female version of Pat Robertson. Everyone is free to believe anything, as long as they don't try to enforce their beliefs on others.

Personally I am agnostic, understanding of religious people's sentiments, not ruling out the possibility of a God, but at the same time, questioning suspicious prophets throughout history.

The other person would have to respect that. I'm not the kind of person to try to convert someone out of their religion, and I would not want someone trying to proselytize me. I wouldn't mind rather the person I'm with is an atheist, Christian, Muslim, Jew, etc, as long as they are not too extreme. I would not go to church just to please another person, and another person would be better for them if they are really extreme.

Religion is important to me, so it's not that I don't take religion seriously. It's that I don't live to convert others.

I suspect if there is a problem, it would not be because of me, but because of another person or their family upset that I am not of their religion.

With hindsight I'd agree, while what constitutes faith, belief and a religion is hotly debated, the behaviours and thinking patterns exhibited by "born again" atheists are uncomfortably familiar.