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Torillian on 11 July 2010
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lolita said:
Kasz216 said:

Unless you died before you were old enough to decide for yourself.  Not that it seems to matter in your particular case... but in most cases when you argue "my parents shouldn't of baptized me".

What you are asking them is largely.... "Why did you make a choice that would make sure if I died we'd spend forever together rather then wait 15 years or so until I could make up my own mind."

In your case, it was just a cerimony... that literally effected you in no real way.  It'd be like being upset you were thrown a birthday party at 1 when you were too early to decide if you liked birthday parties.

"If I would have died, nothing would have happened. There is no God and certainly no heaven."

That's why I hate  debates, they get nowhere. Me and you are different. I don't believe in those things and that's my point. My whole life, even as a kid, I never did. I never studied religion at school (it was an option), it never appealed to me. Heck even my mom isn't religious. We never went to church. Anyway, you get my point, religion was NEVER a part of my life except for that baptism. God to me is like Santa Claus, fictional being. I never even believed in Santa Claus as a child.

It just makes no sense to me that my mom did it. I never will understand it and it was completely pointless. No it didn't hurt me in any way but it still doesn't change the fact that it's silly to do it.

Oh and your comparison with a b-day party is quite flawed. A B-day has a purpose and is beneficial to me. While the baptism isn't, it was a forced religious ceremony.


I agree with you that there is no God and therefore on a spiritual level the baptism meant nothing, but if it made your mom feel better and more safe without doing you any harm then I think it's alright.  I was baptised as well as a child and even forced to go to church but I don't hold it against my parents because they did it because it helped them feel better and more safe about my "soul" without hurting me so what's the harm in it?

 



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