just curious..... - baptisim

mummy2girls wrote: I am going to wait ....

~CrazieMama~ replied: I am going to wait and let them pick what they want to have as a religion.

Mommieto2Girls replied: We are going to wait also. They can pick what they want and then be baptised.

Kaitlin'smom replied: my dad asked me this a while ago, and at the time I did not have an answer on if I was gonna batize her, but I have thought about it and I want to waite until she decides.

MomToMany replied: Being baptised a Catholic myself, I haven't baptised my kids. I haven't followed my religion that closely, and it's been a long time since I went to mass (I'm a sinner ). So, I'll let them decide what they want to do.

Kirstenmumof3 replied: All 3 of my children were bapitzed in my MIL's family gown! The gown is 140 years old and every baby on my MIL's side of the family except 3 have been baptized in this gown! It is in really good condition for being 140 years old!

ediep replied: yup, Jason was baptized when he was 2 1/2 months old.

alice&arik replied: i baptized arik already. I figured that i had suck a bad year before that, i didn't want anything to happen and him not having a chance to be a part of christ. I am not religious at all. Grown up catholic, i do not follow it whatsoever. I am not sure what i believe in or if there is heaven or hell or god, but i wanted to give him a chance. That is just my opinion, not to offend anyone. i think i will belive it when i see it.

DansMom replied: I did not have Daniel baptized and don't plan to, since I am best categorized as a secular humanist with spiritual (but not religious) beliefs. But I would not stop Daniel from pursuing religion or participating in rituals of his own choosing in the future. Like the circumcision decision, this can be a pretty touchy subject for some people, and one gets a lot of pressure both pro and con from family and friends and society. If I had a lot of family tradition or pressure to deal with, I might have gone ahead with a baptism, but that wasn't the case for me, so the easiest decision was no decision!

Schnoogly replied: I didn't baptize Iain and don't plan to. I hope to raise him with enough awareness of what different kinds of religion there are (I study it for pete's sake!!) that he can decide for himself when he's old enough. But I really hope he doesn't get into any fundamentalist/born again groups...no offense, I'd just find it really hard to relate to him, and I hope he will be more open minded and, like dans mom said, humanist than that.

Hillbilly Housewife replied: We had Zach baptised. I'm apparently Catholic, but I don,t relaly practise - both sides of both mine and DH's family are practising though.

I figure - I believe in something, not necessarily *God*, but I also believe in demons etc.... so I figure better safe than sorry. If later on, he doesn't care, he hasn,t lost anything by having been baptised - and besides - you need to be baptised to go to a cathoic school, and i would NEVER in a million years send my shildren to a PUBLIC school. They are gross here. No disipline, shootings, stabbings, mucho violence, you don,t find that kind of stuff at the cathoic schools here - and there erally isn't much religion taught anyways.

My mom intends to bring him to churh with her when she goes, and I don't have a problem with that - but if he decides he doesn't want to go anymore, I won't nmake him.

I'm not the worst for it, neither will he.

5littleladies replied: I haven't had my kids baptised-We had them dedicated. Basically that is our way of saying that we will raise them to know and love God to the best of our abilities and trust their lives to Him. When they are older they can decide if they will be baptised or not.

Schnoogly replied: "apparently Catholic"! Zachs mom you are funny! I'm going to use that one. My raised-Catholic friends call it "culturally Catholic" as in the culture still influences them but they don't really believe or practice.

MomToJade&Jordan replied: We are going to wait. I am also apparently Catholic, but I want to to be her decision.

catou_98 replied: camille was baptise at 3 months!

supermom replied: We don't attend church. I do believe in God, but I am not going to push my beliefs on my child - they will have to make their own minds up for themselves. DH is an athiest, so we have some very interesting discussions around our house some times (never heated, just very thought provoking!).....

I'm baptised Episcopalian - we've made some major headlines the last few days - LOL - we used to say it was "The closest thing to being Catholic without actually being one!"

And if you are a sinner, Mollie, then that makes me one double!

CantWait replied: Robbie was baptised, however my views on the topic have changed for many reasons, mainly his godparents are no longer around and we don't practice the religion, therefore my decision as of right now is that Anthony will not be baptised. I'm sure I'll hear about it from my grandmother. She's a big time catholic and believes if kids aren't baptised if they die, they won't go to heaven or some crap like that, I'm sure she'll die when she finds out. I love her to death but sometimes she's a little crazy LOL.