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Would you baptise your child?(please comment why)

69%

25 deviants said No

31%

11 deviants said Yes

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~Chibi-chan-x Jun 28, 2009, 9:13:43 AM

I think it's just nice to be baptised, even if you don't go to church or anything. Some people are baptised and forget about it, and when in their adult life they have problems, they turn to the church they were baptised in. This is just my opinion, I don't mind what people do. ^-^ (aslong as you don't make elliot become a pope - then i'll be scared *hides). x

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~pacificsun Jun 24, 2009, 9:37:11 AM

Baptism is basically your parents determining a spiritual path for you. Not cool, dude. Because a baby can't decide whether or not it wants to be a Christian. But hey, that's just me.

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~Chibi-chan-x Jun 22, 2009, 11:52:06 AM

I was baptised as a Catholic. I went to a Catholic primary school. They didn't teach me much about religion - more about what's right and what's wrong and why. It was a good school. If I had a kid, I would do the same as my parents did for me, baptise it, bring it up with a slightly religious background so it could go to a good school isntead of a dodgey non religious one O-O and then once their old enough, let them decide where they want their faith to be, whether they change religions, stick to it, become a mor serious member of that religion or drop religion all together. x

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*Sezlar Jun 22, 2009, 2:37:35 AM

My brother and I weren't baptised because our parents wanted us to be able to choose our own religions, if we chose/choose to do so, so, no, I wouldn't baptise my child/children for the same reasons.

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~Artemis19 Jun 21, 2009, 7:21:55 PM

Don't plan on kids, ever. Though, if I do, I'd never get them baptized. Sure, if they chose to I would allow them to get baptized, but...suffice to say you would be hard-pressed to find a former Christian more hostile towards the church (I am against institutionalized religion, not religion in general).

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~Fantasywriter88 Jun 21, 2009, 6:03:16 PM

Don't plan on having kids, ever.

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=Re-d-D-ot Jun 21, 2009, 9:27:44 AM

I don't think I even need to explain that one...

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~Kazutaka-kun Jun 21, 2009, 8:38:19 AM

Personally I'm not a christian (anymore), so all traditions such as batising are not on my to-do-list.

However, if you are a member of the Christian community and not intending to leave, then I suppose baptising your child would seem like a natural thing to do. Like most christian traditions, baptising is not really a question of belief. Most people (in Finland anyways) are not very religious and rather skeptic when it comes to the question of the existance of a god. Still they wish to marry in a church, baptise their children and have a christian burial. It's a habit, a norm, rather than a statement of belief (regardless all the compulsory "I believe in God, the holy Father" -blabbering).

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=wolvenlied Jun 21, 2009, 9:09:29 AM

I was baptised but I don't go to church and I'm not religious. I got annoyed because before my son was born my half sister nagged at me that I should get him baptised cos her kids are and my dad's side of the family is very catholic. Then this weekend my friend came round and saw my son for the first time. When he asked who the godparents were and I said he wasn't baptised I got the same kind of crap over. He said I should at least do it because so that when my son does his communion he'll get presents and it's tradition. I never did my communion when I was a kid and never felt I missed out.
I want to let my child chose later what religion he wants to belong to.
I find it a poor excuse to do dedicate yourself to a religion just for the presents you get. If my son does want to get married in a church then he can baptised later.

It just upset me a little that people are trying to get me to baptise my son when I chose not to

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~Kazutaka-kun Jun 21, 2009, 11:14:09 AM

Then you have done the right thing. After all, it's not anyone else's business, only yours and your son's.
And yeah, I'm bothered by the fact that most people seem to want to be a member of the church because they think there's something like confirmation gifts in it for them. It makes no sense.

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