Communions/confirmations, utter farce?

shes_crazy wrote: »

Care to comment on the State's failure to inspect taxpayer-funded creches?

I'm sure you'll claim, without a hint of irony, that this is a catholic country.

Awww I missed all the fun :mad:

Teach me to go have a zen gravel raking moment.

Fairly sure that was a re-reg of a well known thespian themed troll who was sitebanned before.
The style of argument is very similar.

Troll: "Catholicism defeated slavery"
Poster: "Didn't they run the Magdelene Laundaries?"
Troll: "Hey look over there other people are doing bad things!"

*Troll then personally abuses a regular poster before sauntering off with claims of bullying.

There must be a manual or something. The pattern is very familiar.

ninja900 wrote: »

There was a complete lack of reference to the male anus however.

Check out the posts in After Hours...

Penn wrote: »

I don't think it matters when you make communion, but confirmation definitely shouldn't be until you're 18. You're confirming that you will continue to be a christian for the rest of your life, and that the promises your parents made for you at your baptism, you will continue with yourself. That's basically what the ceremony is. I was 11 when I made my confirmation. Not even nearly 12, about 11 and 3 months. I made that decision because I was told I was making that decision.

It's complete horsesh*t that that takes place at such a young age. Like others, my confirmation was merely how I earned money for a Playstation. That was all I was thinking of.

If confirmation didn't happen until you were 18 and there was no big ceremony about it, many people wouldn't bother with it.

I thought the same thing too, but the Church has cunning ways around everything.

They do this in Poland. You get your confirmation around 17/18. You'd think that would knock a huge amount off the numbers, but it doesn't. And there's no big money gifts in the equation either to sway anyone to go ahead with it. The kids get told that without their confirmation, they cannot get married in a church when the time comes. When you have so many young girls who dream about their big day in a beautiful building, they all sign up for it. Then you have all the teenage boys terrified of the wrath of a scorned woman 8 to 10 years down the line and they all sign up too.

My Polish boyfriend went through with it for this very reason, even though he was trying to figure out his sexuality at the time. But he did it just in case anyway. Turned out he didn't need to do it at all now that he's ended up being shacked up with a dirty atheist homo like myself.

Jernal wrote: »

Slightly OT.
Marriage is first and foremost about both husband and wife committing themselves to God. (Then wife submitting to husband.)

So marriage is God plus man plus indentured housekeeper/incubator.

:pac:

Corkfeen wrote: »

The ultimate proof of the insidious liberal gay atheist agenda.... Uncertain on how it relates to the topic though... :pac:

Turing didn't make his communion?

eyescreamcone wrote: »

Lovely occassion last sunday.
Was having my brunch around 1pm on Main Street in Kinsale when the Corpus Christi procession came past.
Led by 25 kids in the last wear of their communion outfits.
Followed by a few priests and brothers and the kids parents.
Lots/some houses had yellow and white (Vatican City colours) flags and bunting out.
Some locals even had small statues of Ms. Mary Christ, her eldest son Jesus and some distant relation - a child from Prague, displayed outside the doorways of houses and business premises.

Catholics and their offspring, the "cultural catholics", love a day out it seems.

Jaysus, they still do Corpus Christi? I remember being dragged around the neighbourhood as a wee girl, yellow and white bunting everywhere. I didn't know that there still were Corpus Christi parades on.

lazygal wrote: »

Is that what those flags are for? Saw the church decked out this weekend alright. What's it in aid of?

Transubstantiation.