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RE: So I'm about to get confirmed
June 25, 2016 at 12:29 pm
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(June 21, 2016 at 8:27 am)Veritas Wrote: I'm entering into the stage where I'm a confirmed Catholic, and when I told my mom about me being atheist, she started crying because I wouldn't, "Know the love of jesus christ!" How do I get out of this whole thing?
I'd say that you should tell your mother respectfully, and with understanding of her position, that going through with confirmation as an atheist would not be appropriate. God wants people to be confirmed because they want a relationship with him. Tell her that being an atheist is not denying the possibility of God, but rather seeing no convincing evidence for him. That way she has hope for a future conversion back to the faith if evidence warrants. I'm sure your mom loves you and you should be as caring about her feelings as you can and continue to love her as well.
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RE: So I'm about to get confirmed
June 27, 2016 at 7:51 am
(June 25, 2016 at 12:29 pm)Lek Wrote: (June 21, 2016 at 8:27 am)Veritas Wrote: I'm entering into the stage where I'm a confirmed Catholic, and when I told my mom about me being atheist, she started crying because I wouldn't, "Know the love of jesus christ!" How do I get out of this whole thing?
I'd say that you should tell your mother respectfully, and with understanding of her position, that going through with confirmation as an atheist would not be appropriate. God wants people to be confirmed because they want a relationship with him. Tell her that being an atheist is not denying the possibility of God, but rather seeing no convincing evidence for him. That way she has hope for a future conversion back to the faith if evidence warrants. I'm sure your mom loves you and you should be as caring about her feelings as you can and continue to love her as well.
god doesn't want anything, he doesn't exist. The church wants confirmations because it looks like the number of adherents is higher than it actually is.
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RE: So I'm about to get confirmed
June 27, 2016 at 10:22 am
I'm just saying this from personal experience: Just take the confirmation and just tell your parents to not expect much else from after it. Near my graduation from the Hell that was grade school, It was expected that I would get confirmed. We were coming close to severing all ties to that particular church anyway (partly due to increasingly irreconcilable differences, partly due to my having a shitty time, and partly because they were becoming increasingly corrupt), but we decided it would be best if I just got confirmed. It didn't mean anything to me except a boring hour in church and a Line 6 Variax guitar.
And, as soon as graduation ended, I only went back twice. Once for schadenfreude's sake when the pastor died and once to pick up some posters that the organist offered my mother (IIRC, a "Let it Be" poster and a chart of guitar chords)
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RE: So I'm about to get confirmed
June 27, 2016 at 10:29 am
Yeah, if you don't believe, what does getting confirmed actually do aside from making you endure a boring/funny ceremony? I mean, I've gone to church several times since figuring out I'm an atheist, and I haven't been struck down, burned with the holy water, or anything like that. I just marvel at adults turning off their brains for an hour or so to listen to a guy in a dress drone on and on about a zombie that loves them.
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RE: So I'm about to get confirmed
June 27, 2016 at 12:26 pm
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IKR? Doesn't even take the dress off at the end of it. I mean what the actual fuck are people throwing dollar bills at that guy for?
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