The in-laws have been dropping little hints here and there about getting my daughter Christened, and playing little tricks like referring to it as a “naming ceremony”.
I had agreed to it in 2016 to some boomer archbishop of bangalore and even did a 15 hour ‘catholic marriage course’, so we could have the wedding in church. But shortly after the wedding, the pedophile stories were on another level all around the world. Been pretty clear with my wife that this is a deal breaker and we will not be signing our children up to the catholic church and will be giving them the choice. My mum was catholic and father is a non-practicing hindu, so things got pretty testy about what would happen with us with our grandparents. They got so frustrated with everything they just gave us our own choice. I’m mostly agnostic.
How do the fathers on here approach religion for their children? At this point I’m thinking hopefully organized religion will be a thing of the past within three or four more generations.
Happy to take my daughter to church on Christmas, and blow crackers and eat samosas on Diwali, but that will be my only contribution.