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Hi there, just wanted to let you know what I did & why ... I was raised catholic & it was pretty much forced down my throat every day by my mom & grandparents, we prayed the rosary multiple times a day, I was forced to go to church EVERY Sunday until I was 15, I had to go to confession all the time as a child even when I had nothing to confess, which I hated! I just hated all of it, & I had no choice & my family never taught me anything about other religions which mad me mad, because just because they are different, doesn't make them wrong. When I was 15 I had enough & begged my mom to stop making me go, as I got older I studied other religions & found many of them facinating & I totally respect them & think every person has the right to believe what ever they want as long as they don't force it on anyone. I am now agnostic & so is my husband (basicaly we believe there is something up there greater then us, but don't know what - therefore we don't practice anything) we believe in evolution & science, but we still celebrate X mas & easter because it's just fun, & just overall try to be good people. We decided not to baptise my 3 year old son, & 6 month old daughter ... now I may be wrong, but I think from what I learned in church is that people are soposed to baptise, so that if/when you pass away that you go to heaven & not hell. Well, I just have a really hard time in believing that if an innocent child died & was not baptised, that if there was a god - he would send the child to hell. We got allot of flack from family for not baptising, but I don't care - these are my children & I want them to make up their own mind. We are going to teach them about many different religions when they are older & let them make up their own mind. But that's just my opinion, I'm sure many people have different idea's & opinions on this subject, but that is what works for us.

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