Hercule Poirot wrote: » I may be a bit behind the times but is there not a Catholic Register or something that you can request to be removed from - if it is something you are serious about? I personally have been baptised and the whole shebang but will be recording no religion on my form - there are only three reasons you will see me in a church, hatches, matches and dispatches - and only if I'm invited, on a few occasions I have found an excuse to skip the church part altogether As far as I'm concerned if you are not a practicing Catholic who goes to mass and genuinely believes in the Catholic dogma then you have no business ticking the Catholic box on the census form or even identifying as Catholic - it's a religion and should be treated with respect, you either are one or you are not
Joeytheparrot wrote: » But they are not asking you what your opinion on public policy is!!!!
Speedwell wrote: » Oh well, to me honesty is putting down the answer that is closest to my opinion about public policy in an instrument designed to gauge people's probable opinions about matters of public policy, but you do as you think wisest.
hinault wrote: » Indeed you did not cover that. You didn't state whether or not you had discussed the reason for your being baptised with the people who had you baptised. At a guess, it appears that you didn't discuss your being baptised with the people who had you baptised.
Maximus Alexander wrote: » Why not get to whatever the point is that you're trying to maneuver towards? The relevance of the question is wholly unclear.
Maximus Alexander wrote: » I did indeed cover that. There's no mystery as to why. Because they were catholics
hinault wrote: » The bit you didn't cover was - did you discuss with the people who had you baptised their reason for doing so. Did you discuss this with the people who had you baptised?
Maximus Alexander wrote: » There's no mystery as to why. Because they were catholics
Maximus Alexander wrote: » I was yeah, we covered that.
Maximus Alexander wrote: » I don't object Somebody splashed some water on my head decades ago. It's a total irrelevance.
Maximus Alexander wrote: » I was baptised and I'm not Catholic.
hinault wrote: » I didn't say that there was a mystery. If you object to being baptised Catholic, did you bring that objection up with the people who had you baptised. Did you tell your parents that you objected to their decision to have you baptised? If not why not?
hinault wrote: » I'm complimenting the work done by your parents. Is that a problem for you?
hinault wrote: » Have you taken any of this up with the folk who had ye baptised? If not, why not?
hinault wrote: » Why they had ye baptised. Have ye asked them? If you haven't, why?
mud wrote: » You asked a question and I answered and you come back with the above? What's your point?
Maximus Alexander wrote: » Taken what up with them?
hinault wrote: » Your parents did their best for you.
mud wrote: » I have. I was told that they were my parents and they assumed I would grow up in the faith because that was their faith and their parents' faith and so on and so forth. I would love to see baptism postponed until the person can make an informed decision for themselves.
Nicolas Cage wrote: » If you're baptised catholic but then posthumously baptised a mormon, what happens?
realdanbreen wrote: » I know that non believers like everything simplified and explained to them bit by bit , just like you would with a child, but you do realise the poster meant he was baptised into the catholic church.
Walter Large Rhino wrote: » Right, well I'll take this as an admission of the strong likelihood of arrogant catholics imposing their religion on those who explicitly state they want nothing to do with it then.
beach_walker wrote: » Exactly. Finally we can agree. Once you're baptised, you can consider yourself Catholic and the Church always will. Nice resolution to the thread!
