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vlad321 said:
ssj12 said:
I have zero issue with this whole renouncing their faith thing.

It is this little paragraph that annoys me:

the latest last week when Pope Benedict XVI stirred global controversy on a trip to AIDS-ravaged Africa by saying condom use could further the spread of the disease.


WTF was the Pope thinking? He seriously crossed so many lines with that massive line of BS. He just shows how useless he is. "Hand of God" my foot. More like fist of Satan.

 

That's already old news. France denounced the Pope for it btw.

 

 

Yeah he needs to clarify- I think he was going for the

 

“Yeah condoms help but the bigger thing that would is not having sex to begin with”  but since he goofed its snowballing big time

 



 

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I don't really see the point in being un-baptised. Will it change your life in any way? I don't think so.

But then what do I know, I've never been baptised in the first place.



tombi123 said:
I don't really see the point in being un-baptised. Will it change your life in any way? I don't think so.

But then what do I know, I've never been baptised in the first place.

Symbolic actions can be about sending a message, or may just affect you psychologically, even though there aren't any actual effects.



cool, i love that people do that, i thought about doing it myself as i use there site for news and stuff, they do alot of good work campaigning against religion in politics.



tombi123 said:
I don't really see the point in being un-baptised. Will it change your life in any way? I don't think so.

But then what do I know, I've never been baptised in the first place.

 

I see it this way. If your parents signed you up for a conservative politicl party before you could make decisions but you grew up liberal, would you want to stay part of that conservative party?



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highwaystar101 said:
tombi123 said:
I don't really see the point in being un-baptised. Will it change your life in any way? I don't think so.

But then what do I know, I've never been baptised in the first place.

 

I see it this way. If your parents signed you up for a conservative politicl party before you could make decisions but you grew up liberal, would you want to stay part of that conservative party?

 

very good point, of course what should really do is stop baptism in the first place, i would argue its a breach of the childs right to choose there own religion



i am for baptism, he is a part of my life and by that sign i am committing my child to him and myself to raise her in the environment of my beliefs

that's your job as a parent , to raise your child as best you see fit, and that mean s not being a friend but a parent



 

Wait, if these people don't believe in all that christianity stuff then why are they going out of their way to remove a blessing that they believe does absolutely nothing?

Just for the record I'm pretty much an athiest.



^good point



 

mesoteto said:
i am for baptism, he is a part of my life and by that sign i am committing my child to him and myself to raise her in the environment of my beliefs

that's your job as a parent , to raise your child as best you see fit, and that mean s not being a friend but a parent

 

thats called indoctrination, imo children should come to there own conclusions about things like religion, surely it defeats the point of your faith to force it on anyone, especially a child?