My daughter is 11 and I feel religion should be a personal decision her mother is trying to have her baptized with out my consent.
I am personally unbaptized and am searching for my own answers.
2006-11-24 05:57:57 · 6 answers · asked by magus72 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Just being baptized is pointless. If your daughter gets baptized because you or her mother say so, she might as well just be playing in water.
2006-11-24 06:04:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anthony M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think your question is contradictory in sense. You say you are searching for your own answers (for yourself), but you also say you are against your daughter (by not giving consent) being baptized.
I think, the important question is, what is your 11 year old daughter wants to do? Another important thing is, a ritual is just that. A procedure.... that alone does not make a religion.
My thinking is, your wife has no authority in forcing your daughter to be baptized, and you don't have any rights to refuse to consent, if either of actions result in a process that is against your daughters will.
Of course, I am not speaking from legal or religeous point of view.
2006-11-24 06:09:50 · answer #2 · answered by tkquestion 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it extremely is not suitable in the event that they do or do no longer. baptism of a individual who's only too youthful to realize it extremely is barely an emblem of the guy's induction right into a faith gadget. It would not certainly CREATE any faith. while the toddler gets sufficiently old to think of for himself or herself, the different thought gadget (or loss of thought) might nicely be observed. The baptism isn't a barrier to this. i substitute into christened elderly a pair of million. It did no longer make me a christian. i'm now no longer a christian. consumer-friendly! you may certainly say that baptism is for the mothers and dads, no longer the toddler. it extremely is a ceremony of conforming to social norms. It skill no longer something in any respect to the toddler except the toddler is already a believer. the real ill could be baptising a toddler who's sufficiently old to understand and doing it without their consent. it extremely is surprisingly nasty paintings.
2016-11-26 20:13:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well if the child is already 11 she is not so much "a child" she can answer that herslef why not let her decide what she wants....I do agree that religion should be a personal decision and even at 11 she should have an idea of what she wants
2006-11-24 06:17:21 · answer #4 · answered by starlight♥ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just being baptized is not enslaving her to a certain religion, there are many other battles you can choose to fight, she will have plenty of time to search for her own answers later in life.
2006-11-24 06:02:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
She's 11 now. She's making some of her own decisions now. What does your daughter want? Please don't let your wife's and your stubbornness get in the way of your daughter respecting and loving both of you.
2006-11-24 06:00:37 · answer #6 · answered by J G 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋