senoritafish | Hmmm.... (Reply)

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I needed a laugh. Garrison, if it were real, I'd order it. I already own "Bach does the Beatles."

Typical Saturday night. Listening to PHC. Both Angus and Gareth are at Grandma's - they'll go to Sunday School with her in the morning. I am still ambivalent about this; I would like them to be exposed to different religions, including non-Christian ones, but I am do not myself paritcipate in any particular organized belief. I was raised a Christian Scientist, and to this day, get a little defensive when I hear people disparaging it, but I don't practice it. I occasionally consume alcohol and I go the doctor.

So I was put on the spot last Sunday when John's mother and grandmother came over for dinner. Afterwards, John plunked an envelope of papers in front of me, right in front of his relatives. It contained three applications for baptism at my mother-in-laws Espiscopal Church. Now Christian Scientists do not baptise, or take communion or any of those physical things other Christian churches do. It goes along with Mary Baker Eddy taking the "no graven images" thing literally. There are no images, no stained glass, no crosses, and no symbolism of water, wine or wafers. Although intellectually, I know it's just a few drops of water, and why would it hurt, this makes me uncomfortable. It's something completely foreign to me. Does she actually think my kids are going to hell if this doesn't happen? Another difference - in CS, hell as well as heaven are states of mind, not actual places.

This is why I'm not religous. It just gives me a headaches and gives heads of state reasons to start wars.