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My husband and I are both atheist; however, both of our sets of parents are Catholic. Obviously, since neither of us have any sort of religious beliefs, we didn't even consider baptizing our 6-month-old son. To our devout Hispanic Catholic parents, in their eyes, we have already condemned ourselves to hell and by not baptizing our baby, we are sending him to hell, too. Every time we visit both families, we receive flak for not having a baptism yet. We both have the belief that religion is a personal choice, and if our son chooses to follow a certain faith, he should discover it and embrace it on his own, not be forced into it from infanthood like my husband and I were. How can we help show our parents that our parenting decision is going to stick? We don't care that they think it's wrong--we just don't want to hear about it.
2007-02-03
03:39:07
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corazonheart83
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