The age at which you are normally confirmed is older now..I believe its 10th grade.
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 2:37 PM, G Money<gm0n3...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Casey Dougall < > ca...@uberwebsitesolutions.com> wrote: > >> >> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:15 PM, G Money <gm0n3...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > >> > I find this amusing. >> > >> > Annoyed that your parents baptized you when you were too young to make up >> > your own mind? No problem...just get "de-baptized"! >> > >> > >> http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2009-07-21-atheists-debaptism_N.htm >> > >> >> >> Glad my parents gave me the choice and did not baptize me. They still >> circumcised me but I can live with that. > > > Catholics have another ceremony called Confirmation that allows kids to > basically "confirm" that which was affirmed for them during baptism. This > ceremony usually occurs around the time the kids are in 8th grade. I'm not > sure what it would mean in the eyes of the church if you refused to go > through Confirmation, however....i don't think it has the same affect as > "un-baptizing" you...but I don't really know. > > I've never really understood organized religion and it's almost cathartic > dependence on ceremony, or more specifically for Christianity, "sacraments". > > > -- > Let your soul and spirit fly > Into the mystic > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:300802 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
