| mesoteto said: It is not forced, every day more and more people in the world “force” the opposite beliefs on my daughter and my family “premarital sex, drugs, hate, violence” all I do is present the counter to that and what I feel is the best option for her growth and her soul I am sorry you have such a distaste for it My parents made me go to church almost ever Sunday, including the ones where I would rather play outside or just sleep in and I don’t have any regrets, resentment, or remorse for that time God gave me breath and I do what I can to honor that and try to pass it back on |
I think you guys misunderstood eachother somewhere down the line.
I know where highwaystar is coming from. To me, the ideal way of endorsing christianity into your life, would be to make the choice on your own once you are old enough.
A girl from my class is apostolic, and as far as I understand, the parents can wish for their child to recieve a blessing when they are small, and when they turn 18 or so, they can choose to be baptised. Personally, I think this is a very ideal solution. You can still raise your child to be christian, go to church etc. but if they disagree with the beliefm they can decide not to be baptised, as opposed to their parents just having them baptised from the beginning.
They way things are now, you can feel like you're having christianity cramped down your throat, by stuff like confirmation (once you are 13, you go to church and confirm your belief to god. We have that in Denmark at least), but confirmation has become tradition more than anything else. The only reason I got "confirmed" was because my dad said we wouldn't hold a party and I wouldn't get any gifts (confirmation brings a lot of big gifts here), and I did not want to miss out on that.
