Giving money to kids doing Holy Communion/Confirmation.

Daniel S

I'm 17 and an athiest (more "I don't give a f&%k/sh*t happens"). I've been thinking (passing time until CAO round two offers ), do you go to communions/confirmations to meet up with the family and do you give the lad/girl money?


If I was in second or sixth class again, it doesn't matter if your religious or not... you'd be the scummy bollox who didn't give me money

I loved my first holy collection, funnily enough, stopped going to mass after those events finished.

optogirl

Sure - it's me who is the atheist, not them. Same as I'd go along with a gift to a wedding, bar mitzvah etc if invited and friend or family wanted me there.

Daniel S

optogirl wrote: »

Sure - it's me who is the atheist, not them. Same as I'd go along with a gift to a wedding, bar mitzvah etc if invited and friend or family wanted me there.

But it's promoting a religion that you don't belong to, unless it's Catholic, in which case your "trapped" :rolleyes:

optogirl

How is it promoting it? I am not making my communion, the child of a relative or friend is. My own children wont be unless they decide that for themselves.

Would you go to a wedding?

Galvasean

I would definately give the kid a few quid. i remember my confirmation... wasn't to big on the Catholicism... however I was big on wanting to buy an N64!
Why deny them their video games?

Daniel S

optogirl wrote: »

How is it promoting it? I am not making my communion, the child of a relative or friend is. My own children wont be unless they decide that for themselves.

Would you go to a wedding?

Weddings aren't primarily religious. :pac:

Daniel S

Galvasean wrote: »

I would definately give the kid a few quid. i remember my confirmation... wasn't to big on the Catholicism... however I was big on wanting to buy an N64!
Why deny them their video games?

I think that is the approach I'd take when I'm older

scholar007

My oul fella sent me round the pub with my hand out for my communion - twas the done thing apparently!

Galvasean

scholar007 wrote: »

My oul fella sent me round the pub with my hand out for my communion - twas the done thing apparently!

That I really don't like though. It seems more and more common these days. People shouldn't be guilt tripped into giving a kid Communion money. If you want to give them a few bob that's up to you.

Doctor DooM

My communion money bought me an Ultra Magnus, and that was a toy I loved to death.

No way I'd stop a kid I care about having a nice day to prove my own personal point

robindch

mtb_kng wrote: »

do you go to communions/confirmations to meet up with the family and do you give the lad/girl money?

Can't say that I'm invited to many religious ceremonies, but on the odd occasion I am, pressies are usually either holy books, statues, figurines, leaflets, treatises on some important holy debate, vatican-themed toilet paper and so on.

Money is so, um, mammonish, innit? It distracts the little dears from what they should be thinking of on these special days...

Undergod

Doctor DooM wrote: »

My communion money bought me an Ultra Magnus, and that was a toy I loved to death.

So jealous.

smokingman

Doctor DooM wrote: »

My communion money bought me an Ultra Magnus, and that was a toy I loved to death.

Mine got me a huge Star Wars AT-AT walker....bloody awesome that was

Penn

smokingman wrote: »

Mine got me a huge Star Wars AT-AT walker....bloody awesome that was

I put mine in my savings and got a high interest annual bond of 0.43% :cool:

zico10

mtb_kng wrote: »

Weddings aren't primarily religious. :pac:

If the wedding ceremony takes place in a Catholic church, it's one of the seven sarcraments, and it's religious to the same extent Communion and Confirmation are.

magicbastarder

i usually buy kids a present rather than handing them cash.

smokingman

Barrington wrote: »

I put mine in my savings and got a high interest annual bond of 0.43% :cool:

You bought prize bonds with your "here kid, how much for your soul" money?
Did you not have Transformers/Star Wars/Action Man/Action Force in your local shops back then?

Penn

smokingman wrote: »

You bought prize bonds with your "here kid, how much for your soul" money?
Did you not have Transformers/Star Wars/Action Man/Action Force in your local shops back then?

Yeah but the boxes were all damaged so they had instantly lost 20% of the resale value

(I actually bought a Mega Drive. I have no idea if what I said even makes sense )

smokingman

Barrington wrote: »

I actually bought a Mega Drive.

I had a SNES - suddenly, I know what the whole protestant/catholic divide actually feels like....

SNES was the one true 16 bit, the one, the way, the mode-7 of all

Penn

smokingman wrote: »

I had a SNES - suddenly, I know what the whole protestant/catholic divide actually feels like....

SNES was the one true 16 bit, the one, the way, the mode-7 of all

This forum is for discussing light-hearted things like where did the universe come from, how religion affects society, is there a sentient creator to all life, is religion a good thing etc....


Let's not start a serious debate on something like SNES Vs Mega Drive

Zamboni

Barrington wrote: »

This forum is for discussing light-hearted things like where did the universe come from, how religion affects society, is there a sentient creator to all life, is religion a good thing etc....


Let's not start a serious debate on something like SNES Vs Mega Drive

Rich bastards.

Master System II

robindch

Barrington wrote: »

Let's not start a serious debate on something like SNES Vs Mega Drive

I know I'm showing my age here, but frankly, the Sinclair Spectrum knocked the socks off the Commodore 64 and the Oric-1

Jet Set Willy, ftw!

kylith

Atari 2600

Would have given my left arm for a Commodore.

Turtwig

I used my meagre* confirmation money to buy Conkers Bad Fur Day for the N64.:D

*Meagre by today standards.

Mistress 69

mtb_kng wrote: »

I'm 17 and an athiest (more "I don't give a f&%k/sh*t happens"). I've been thinking (passing time until CAO round two offers ), do you go to communions/confirmations to meet up with the family and do you give the lad/girl money?


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Atheist or not,If you are invited to one of the above you should go, as it is obviously important to your friends/relations that you do so, and you should also do the gift thing for the child involved.

MagicMarker

Mistress 69 wrote: »

Atheist or not,If you are invited to one of the above you should go, as it is obviously important to your friends/relations that you do so, and you should also do the gift thing for the child involved.

Or, on the other hand, you shouldn't do anything you don't want to do?

Why anyone would invite anybody but very immediate family to a bloody communion or confirmation is beyond me! Only my parents were at my communion, leaving two brothers at home. And afair only my mother was at my confirmation.

Come to think of it, I think one of my nieces must have had her communion in the last year or two, and you know what? I never even heard about it! I didn't even know she was baptised until last year, she must be near 10 now!!

Mistress 69

MagicMarker wrote: »

Or, on the other hand, you shouldn't do anything you don't want to do?

Why anyone would invite anybody but very immediate family to a bloody communion or confirmation is beyond me! Only my parents were at my communion, leaving two brothers at home. And afair only my mother was at my confirmation.

Come to think of it, I think one of my nieces must have had her communion in the last year or two, and you know what? I never even heard about it! I didn't even know she was baptised until last year, she must be near 10 now!!

Fair enough, everyone is in different circumstances, my new thinking then is influenced by the banks... case by case basis!

strobe

Ye know, I think an 'invitation' is just that. It is an offer to do something (come somewhere etc), not a demand. It's a request not a summons. If someone invited me to something I might go, I might not, depends. If I invited someone somewhere and they turned it down I am not even slightly insipid enough to hold it against them. The person making the invite is the one (potentially) making the imposition.