(November 26, 2020 at 2:18 pm)tackattack Wrote: 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
^This. I view godparenting more as an important part of 'it takes a village to raise a child' than as a duty to be shunned because it may have some religious aspects to it.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
