My son is to be baptized soon. And sitting in the office of our Catholic church, a religion I have many problems with, I have to recite the reasons for wanting our child baptized.
Initiation.
Original Sin.
Salvation.
Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior?
And then I am told that what I was told was Original Sin is not what “The Church” now says is original sin. Now we are to realize that we are born into an imperfect world and can only be made perfect through faith in Christ. And who doesn’t want to be made perfect, eh?
You say you smell hypocrisy? I say that you are correct.
The reason we are baptizing our son in the Church is because, well, family on both sides expect it. And the Catholic faith isn’t all bad, except for some unnecessary deification and tons of dogmatic red tape, like most religions it does assist in instilling a moral compass of sorts, albeit one that is Christ centered, or at least the Catholic Churches version of Christ.
I will be happy when this is all over. I have grave aversions to anything false and not done whole heartedly.
This is my latest sin.
