(February 23, 2011 at 12:24 pm)KichigaiNeko Wrote:Thank you and yes it will be a him. As for religious schooling there are certian things I will concede and others I won't. If my wife wants to go through a pointless ritual of splashing magic water on our kid that is fine. There is no way in hell I would ever let my kid go to religious school or even be an altar boy. My wife has made some comments about taking him to church but hopefully since he'll question things seeing that daddy doesn't have to go. I don't want to indoctrinate my kid to automatically believe what I do but I do want him to have critical thinking skills and to know that the things he hears in church are not 'gospel.'(February 23, 2011 at 12:08 pm)FaithNoMore Wrote: My wife is somewhat of a Catholic and we are having a child next week(scheduled c-section).
Awwwwcongratulations mate! Seriously. So who gets to do the 'Late night Shift'? Anyway...congrats and I hope the C-Section goes well
(February 23, 2011 at 12:08 pm)FaithNoMore Wrote: I recently found out that she wants to have our kid batptized and it makes me sick to my stomach. I seriously thought it was only to appease the older members of her family but after some inquiries I found out it's what she wants. Now I am really dreading the whole thing and probably will throw up a little in my mouth during the ceremony but it's her kid too. I will take the oaths seriously as I will be 'educating' him about God.
And that is ALL you can do mate. Oh yes "educate" him(?we know it a male child?) about this skydaddy but I really think the whole altar boy and maybe even religious private schooling might be questionable.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
