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.

    Religion is absolute bollocks and the root of an awful lot of the world’s problems now and throughout history. Save yourselves the trouble, the time and the sheer fucking tedium of it all by giving in the ol’ s to the werve.

      What Grant said. Avoid like the plague. Adds absolutely nothing to your life and you can always hedge your bets and repent on your death bed (or in your case death toilet). Why anyone would want to subject their kids to such tedium and a life of servitude to the supposed almighty is beyond me.

      It’s your choice as parents at the end of the day, the sooner they realise that the better.

      I still find it amazing how people can believe in the complete fiction purported in religious texts, based on zero evidence whatsoever but dismiss the stone cold facts that Homo sapiens have been living on earth for hundreds of thousands of years

      Has the Bible been peer-reviewed?

      YES IT HAS

      rhouses At this point I’m thinking hopefully organized religion will be a thing of the past within three or four more generations.

      Maybe it’s not so much of a thing yet in India, but wokeism is becoming a kind of new religion.

        Religion is a pissing contest over who has the best imaginary friend

        Yeah but my God is better than you’re God.. Let’s have a duel.

        My parents are catholic and my mum got really upset when I said I want nothing to do with it and it was a load of old bollix.

        She got upset when I didn’t christen my children as “they’d never get to heaven if they died if they’re not christened”. I really was stumped to find the words to respond to that one, lol.

        So many of my friends pretend that they believe in god etc. and go to church for a few years when their kids are born to get their kids into catholic schools - there’s so much hypocrisy and bullshit with it all.

        Like Millsy says, hedge your bets on your deathbed as the great Homer Simpson once said when staring death in the face “Jesus, Allah, Buddah - I love you all”

          rhouses blow crackers

          You put blow in your crackers? Some do round at casa Wrhooose Dawgs this chrimbo!

          Homegrove yes he is.

          But has he done the research? Has he? Has he???

          That’s me in the corner.
          That’s me in the spot light, loooooosing my religion.

          Not my words, the words of Michael Stipe.

          Old-Dutch it’s nuts isn’t it, unless you have a paedo priest throw tap water on your babies head there is no chance it will be granted entry into a fictional entity.

          What gets me is how ingrained Christianity is within our country, politics, military, etc, surely they need to drop that sooner or later?

          Could be worse, could be in the holy state of the USA, which for the vast majority of its human history was an animist continent

            The Parish priest was sent down for noncery. I was an altar server when he was at the church. You’ll never know the damage and turmoil I suffer on a daily basis wondering why he never picked me? Why wasn’t I good enough?