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Religion tends to be a bit tricky when it comes to raising kids. Many couple friends of mine have been blindsided during pregnancy with the all of a sudden realization that they don’t agree on which religion to raise their children in. With Jim and I it was fairly simple.
I was raised Mormon. I have not been to a service since I was 18 and my mother couldn’t make me go anymore. I don’t have any animosity towards the Church, nor do I have any long lost love. I enjoyed going when I was a kid, it’s youth programs are amazing and we had so much fun. However, I have no interest in my children being raised in the Mormon church.
Jim is Catholic. He and his brothers and sister all went through the Catholic schools here in our town. His family is active in the parish. They say grace before each meal and attend Mass each Sunday.
At this point I consider myself a Christian. I don’t regularly attend church, and to be honest I don’t want to. I pray. I feel like I can be closer to God in a field with my thoughts, then I can kneeling on a pew with the thoughts of a Priest in my ear. I feel if you are a good person and you are good to others, you will end up in a good place.
However, the boys will most likely be attending Catholic school. Since that is the probability, we made the decision to baptize them Catholic. It meant so much more to Jim and his family to have them baptized, then it did for me to not. Chase was baptized December 2nd, 2007 and Jimmy entered the Church this past Sunday, August 9th,2009.
I feel as though the right choice was made for them, but they will have the end choice on what sort of a role religion and church will play in their lives. Had Mormonism been not so heavily pushed on me, I might not have run as fast as I could in the other direction. Religion is a personal thing and I think it should be a personal choice, whether you are 8, 15 or 30 years old.
Happy Christening Jimmy. As Ammo said…”Go Baptism!”
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What a cutie! That’s such a nice picture.
You’re right, religion can be a volatile topic. Neither Bil, nor I, go to church. So when we told my parents (staunch Catholics) we weren’t having V baptized they about died. I think it’s your kids. You need to do what feels right for you and your family.
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I could not have said it better myself and Jimmy is a doll!
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Well put. Neither my husband or I go to church so we didn’t have our daughter baptized. I’m sure some in our families look down on us for that but I don’t care. I was raised in the anglican church and always enjoyed going. I got away from going to church when I moved out and actually my mom doesn’t go anymore either. My view is that religion is a personal choice and if Maya wants to go to church when she is older I’ll gladly take her, but I’ll leave that choice up to her.
Jimmy is so adorable in that photo. Too cute.
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I was raised Methodist/Catholic (Metholic? Cathodist?), and Dave was Church of England, which is basically Episcopalian. We still haven’t really decided how we’re going to raise our kids. That’s mostly Dave, though – he was a youth minister & had a really horrible experience with his church: a young family had a child with leukemia, the church rallied to support them, then the child died & the entire church shunned them because “if they’d had more faith,” their child would’ve lived. (I know, I had to pick my jaw up off the floor when I first heard that one too. It’s a doozy!) But since then, it’s like pulling teeth to get him to even set foot inside a church.
Personally, I like church. I especially like what I call the “relaxed & groovy Christians” that are inclusive of everybody and don’t push a particular agenda on you. I think if I were a little more proactive and found a church like that, I could maybe coerce Dave into coming with us. As it stands now, we don’t have a church and Catie has never been baptized, and my parents are NOT HAPPY about that fact. Hmm.
P.S. That is one seriously gorgeous baby you have there.
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um, i want to get my lipstick all over his little face (and that white outfit).
soooooooo gorgeous!!!!
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awww he is so cute. it’s a great picture. and i think you’re like a lot of other people who had religion pushed down their throats their whole childhood that as adults, they just can’t hack it. me and my 2 sisters all grew up in church and never went to public school a day in our lives. 2 sisters rebelled. i stayed strong. i still go to church and now hannah goes to christian school. but like i said, i can’t blame you. it’s hard to want to stick to something that was shoved in your face over and over…esp if you don’t agree with it all, you know? either way, jimmy looked adorable
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Oh, he’s so freaking adorable.
I’m eh on church and religion in general. My dad was raised with watered down Judaism, my mom raised a southern baptist. Neither of them really believed in either, so I was raised with no religion. I kinda like that, because it made it where I could form my own beliefs without being told it wasn’t okay.
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I’m not about religion either. I don’t go to church or pray because I’m not sure what I believe anymore. I was rasied Catholic but it was pushed on me, so when my first was born I went through the motions, had her baptized and sent her to Catholic until she received communion & then switched to Public. I figure now I can learn WITH her about different religions/cultures and let her decide because like you religion was pushed on me.
Do what’s right for you and that little boy is just too sweet in his white.
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