This weekend we baptized our three year old son in a big Orthodox church on Crete. I had never taken him to church (I was four months pregnant when the last priest hit on me, so I never went again) and I am a christian that believes that we shouldn't force our children into a religious sect, but teach them both sides of the story and let them choose when they are older. However my husbands family wouldn't hear of it (by the way my son can't be enrolled in school unless he is baptized Orthodox..can you believe it? I would have to send appeals to Brussels to get him into school!) so we baptized him. Not only did he kick the priest in the balls, and turn over the silver basin screaming his lungs out, the next morning he was covered in a rash where the holy anointment oil had touched him. People here are very superstitious and the 'talk' has begun around town. Have I given birth to the antichrist or what? : )
2007-10-15
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