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Was you baptised as a child?
- Thread starter Starlight
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No… never was baptized until I was 28
I was probably baptised as a baby but never asked about such as I recall and couldn't care less if I was or wasn't. 
My life, and my decisions as to what I might believe.
My life, and my decisions as to what I might believe.
☆Dreamwind☆
Active Member
Yeah. It's not exactly like a baby can say yes or no. I did not baptize my daughter. I don't really see the point in baptizing as a baby, but I don't think it causes any harm. Since the person can later decide for themselves whether to stay or leave.
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☆Dreamwind☆
Active Member
Condolences about your mom, that takes a lot of strength and heart to be a caretaker.
☆Dreamwind☆
Active Member
Wth is wrong with him? Doesn't he have any concept of how dangerous that could be? A baby's neck muscles aren't strong or developed yet! He'd find his stupid holy water slammed over his head very violently if he had done something so stupid and careless with my kid!
Dimi95
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I don't know what to say , i am against this kind of baptism.There are some who are not normal at all..
metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
My experience is much the same, but I left the LCA [Lutheran] church in my late teens never to return, mostly because of its anti-evolution and anti-Catholic positions. Imagine the chagrin of my parents when I came home with a Italian Catholic girlfriend, which I married-- now for 57 years next month.
VoidCat
Use any and all pronouns including neo and it/it's
Im an early childhood education major have a certificate from a college for that kind of thing and oh gods...that video was awful to watch especially knowing about early childhood physical development and disabilities that can occur from mishandling of infants...
Like if they wanted the child to be covered in water why not dunk the whole body in there while supporting the head and such? I mean i know you against this kind of thing but that was hard to watch
Dimi95
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Some people just don't think of consequences.
Regiomontanus
Eastern Orthodox
I know this will sound petty! But it is 'were you' not 'was you.' The educator in me says thank you
TagliatelliMonster
Veteran Member
Nope, I wasn't baptised.
I had a purely secular education.
Gods never came up. Religion, in all its forms, was a non-issue.
RestlessSoul
Well-Known Member
I was, but I didn’t have much say in it. My son, my niece and nephew were all baptised, all in Catholic Churches. Not entirely sure why tbh, family tradition mostly.
My Irish great grandmother apparently took my Nan and her siblings to the priest of Corpus Christi Church in Covent Garden, to be baptised in the One True Catholic and Apostolic Faith, unbeknown to their heathen English father.
My Irish great grandmother apparently took my Nan and her siblings to the priest of Corpus Christi Church in Covent Garden, to be baptised in the One True Catholic and Apostolic Faith, unbeknown to their heathen English father.
exchemist
Veteran Member
Yes, twice actually, to the annoyance of my mother. I just remember the second occasion, which was redone when my father converted to Catholicism. Quite unnecessary of course and it rankled with my Anglican mother, but this was the 1950s when there was not nearly so much ecumenical respect between denominations, especially in Scotland where we lived at the time. I must have been 2 years old I think, so it is probably about my earliest memory - I recall the light coming through the stained glass, in St Cuthbert's , Slateford.
I left the church in my 30s but returned when my son was born.
The OP is Norweigen.I know this will sound petty! But it is 'were you' not 'was you.' The educator in me says thank you
Yep, and English irregular-verb conjugations are not the most intuitive thing for many non-native speakers to begin with.
Augustus
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I was baptised in an Anglican Church as a child.
My parents weren’t at all religious, it was just a social event and excuse for a party.
For some reason I grew up assuming I’d never been baptised , although I knew my older sister had been.
Then I needed to get married in a Catholic Church, and thought I’d have to get baptised which would require me to pass a course (or at least show some commitment). This made me annoyed.
My idea was to get some evangelical to baptise me and save on the hassle but my wife’s family wasn’t too keen on that.
Then I found out I actually had been baptised, but couldn’t find my certificate, but I was given a blurry photo of a generic baby being baptised which I was told was me, so gave that to the Priest as “proof”.
Basically though he didn’t care at all and just said he’d trust me.
Anyway, I was baptised and neither left the church or am still a member as I was never religious in the first place and never have been.
It did help me get married to someone from a different Church (which I am also not a member of), although tbh I could have just lied about that as the priest didn’t care at all.
Well, you is plural so should be were.
Thou is singular and would be more useful...
Thy pronouns are certainly more vintage than thine.