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If you can't stand back and see the hypocrisy, and how what you are/will be teaching your child then no amount of "explaining" from me will do any good.
Have you or are you planning on having the child baptized into the Roman Catholic Church?
nice way of backing out of a corner there gerryh. proves you are full of ****
and I don't know until the day to decide comes.
and I don't know until the day to decide comes.
Not backing out of anything, and if you're not getting your child baptized into the faith then I have to ask how you are planning on having him or her "go with the crowd" when it comes time for him/her classmates prepare for and receive First Communion, First Confession, and Confirmation? ...... or are you planning on having them baptized, even though you don't believe, so that you can perpetuate the lie?
who knows. I won't think about that until the day I need to think about it.
I'd rather have my baby baptized as a RC then nothing.
even though Roman Catholism and Christianity has so many holes and issues you could write a book about it.. I'd rather have something.
I'd rather have my baby baptized as a RC then nothing.
even though Roman Catholism and Christianity has so many holes and issues you could write a book about it.. I'd rather have something.
The church doesn't like to baptize children that way anymore. If you're not a practicing member of the church, they will tell you there's no reason to get your child baptized.
I have my kids in Catholic school. That decision meant, for me, that I needed to keep active in my faith too.
I am by birth and by earlier years of my life a Roman Catholic. I just chose not to go to church anymore, but that doesn't mean I have renounced my faith.
there's nothing else out there that's any better, IMO
there's nothing else out there that's any better, IMO
Know what.....when you have your child Baptized, you need to make a promise to raise that child in the Christian faith and the Roman Catholic Church,
why would you want to have your child baptized if you're not 'in' that religion?
What does it matter? Why does one have to be actively involved in a Church to have some faith in its beliefs?
Oh, it's not just a matter of active involvement, more a matter of his overall discussion regarding it. I'm just curious btw.
Agreed ... one not so knowledgeable in the theology isn't going to be able to explain it well. My kids were raised Catholic. That disqualified me as a teacher. Church was the wife's thing.
but I am IN that religion.
I was baptized a RC and I went to Church as a child in the RC church.
I just haven't been going regularly since like 13.
I remember when my wife's boss found out that I was never baptised. She was horrified. I thought that was a strange reaction.
some people out there take their religion way too seriously! they allow it to make their life decisions and control their lives too much.
Did she explain why it was so horrific?
I'm curious. I've had similar reactions too & am at a loss to understand why not being christened/baptised causes such dismay.
Should I have started a separate thread for this? Don't want to upset anyone here.
Do you not see the dichotomy in your statements?
It's because, to many Christians, not being Baptized means that you can not enter into Heaven.
You were born into it, but as an adult you've made a choice, haven't you? Do you really think the pushing of your parents is more defining of you in terms of religion than your own choices as an adult are? You may be culturally Catholic, but your statements regarding what you think of Catholic schools, adn the attitude you would echo to your kids about learning about religion, speaks loudly about what your choice regarding religion as an adult has been.
Let me further add that as a publicly funded school, if you choose to stick your kids in Catholic school and simply pay it lipservice, that's within your right, and you wouldn't be the first person I've met who's done it. I'm just curious about what drives people to some of their decisions surrounding it.
Thank you for replying. But why, when a Christian knows that I am not religious, that the concept of Heaven is not a feasible to me and therefore no such consequence exists, would they be so upset and in one or two cases outraged to the point of placing me beyond the pale, so to speak?
Um... Religion and faith being such sensitive topics and very precious to many, please feel free to ignore this gerryh (and anyone else of course). It's an unequal subject obviously, those of us who have no religious beliefs cannot be offended or hurt but can very easily and inadverdently offend those who do.
The constant quest to understand and to get along causes me to question.