So my mom turned 60 this year, and she said she didn't want any gifts except that we get the baby baptized. is that some form of blackmail? hmm...as a non practicing Catholic, it seems kind of..what is the word I'm looking for?...nonsensical? fake? it's like those priests who are anti-everything (gays/family planning/other religions/etc) but end up being closet child molesters. ah that's the word!...Hypocritical.. It seems hypocritical of me to pretend to be Catholic for one day just so my kid can get baptized, so I told my mom I wasn't a member of a church and I wasn't going to pretend to be a member of the church just for this to happen. Anyway, my hubby wants to keep the peace. He's not even Catholic - he's Baha'i, but he agreed that if my mom arranged it, she could go do it. I hate the idea of being forced into a religion really. It probably results from being forced to go to Catholic school from K-12th grade. I think people who go to Catholic school end up not being a practicing Catholic most of the time. I'm really not sure what it is...maybe the nuns scar you for life...maybe you learn things about the religion that you don't necessarily agree with and with an educated mind (which I guess they helped instill) can't really accept blindly like they want you to...maybe it's the priest who blamed us sinners for 9/11 happening...i would say I wasn't practicing but I put up with the religion for quite some time until I heard that winner of a sermon. Now I kind of am in limbo about organized religion - actually I'm pretty weary of organized religion. I feel like you could be spiritual and have morals and be a good person without necessarily being part of an organized religion. I know that's up for debate by a lot of people, but there are plenty of fanatical religious zealots who are total hypocrites. And if you don't believe in and follow all of the teachings You could learn about all different religions and all the good that they believe and practice, keep an open mind, be inspired by positive messages from anyone, anywhere...
Anyway, sorry, I just went off on some tangent.
It seems my cousin was able to get his priest to agree to do the baptism without us parents being practicing Catholics and having to attend whatever class/meetings you usually have to go to as long as one of the godparents is a practicing Catholic. So I guess my mom will be getting her wish even though we did get her presents anyway on her birthday aside from this...I suppose my mom thinks my baby will be a "sinner" stuck with original sin for the rest of his life if he doesn't get baptized, and that would be sad for her. But lord knows that isn't true because babies are the most pure and innocent souls on earth...I don't think there's an evil bone in a baby's body...how could there be?...it's the adults that influence them that you have to watch out for.. I'm not sure when the baptism will happen, we do have to participate in the ceremony..my mom had to attend a meeting this past Tuesday as our proxy...so I guess it will be happening sometime soon..
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