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Was you baptised as a child?
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Yup, I was.
Left in my teenage years.
Left in my teenage years.
I was baptized into Catholicism when I was 13/14. Left a few years later.
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I were baptized as a baby. The way the good lord intended with just a sprinkle of water. Turns out that it did not take.
Yes as a baby
No. I was baptized when I was 17. I wasn't really raised religious and my family is not Catholic on either side.
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I was baptized, received first communion, and was confirmed.
I am no longer a member.
I am no longer a member.
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For the last year of my mother's life I became her 24 hour a day care taker. I have a housemate for my place and left it pretty much up to her to take care of that and I moved back to my mother's house. I used to take her to church on Sundays and they knew that I was not a member and was well received there. It was because I still respected their beliefs that I would not take communion with them. I seriously think that they would not have been offended, but to me it would have been hypocritical.
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From your avatar it appears that you did so later. To be honest being baptized as a baby really does not make a lot of sense. It should be a conscious choice when one has the ability to make such a choice.
It’s done so if the child dies prior to that age of reason, the child goes to Heaven and not Hell or Purgatory…at least in Catholicism.
Yes, although I don't know when. At some time before I was ten, I think. Pretty certain it was in the Roman Catholic Church.
I also went through Eucharisty. But I was never a Catholic; people around me decided that I must say that I was without caring whether I had any thoughts on the matter.
I guess at the time I believed that to be the usual procedure.
Far as I know, it was and still is, despite obvious problems.
I also went through Eucharisty. But I was never a Catholic; people around me decided that I must say that I was without caring whether I had any thoughts on the matter.
I guess at the time I believed that to be the usual procedure.
Far as I know, it was and still is, despite obvious problems.
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I think that is the same reason in the Lutheran Church that I grew up in. Does it make any sense? Not to me now. But that is just one of the many parts of the religion not making sense that caused me to leave. But I could see how that might be some small comfort to parents in the times of high child mortality rates.
Yes. That is one of the three times tops a Swede look at the inside of a church.
Two, actually, since the third is when she is in a coffin, and cannot see a lot.
I am still a member.
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Never been baptized.
It created some issues for getting married in a Catholic church. I had to get a special dispensation from the archbishop.
Truthfully, I have no idea at all. My mother was a troubled teen, and my father wasn't around from months before my birth, so I suspect (but don't know) that baptism may have been far from her mind. On the other hand, my grandmother (mother's mother) may have thought it important, but again, I don't know.
I'm not baptised.
