I agree to an extent that uncles and aunts are de facto godparent types because their members of the extended family unit. But my godmother and God sisters are not blood. We spent childhood together playing board games and I’ll kind of stuff stuff I didn’t even deal with my uncles and aunts and it seemed closer because they were always there In our lives.I wouldn’t suggest disrespecting anyone’s beliefs, or lying to save face. I do support more extended communal parenting And I see godparents, whether secular or religious, as a helpful part of it
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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