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 23:37:16 · 13 answers · asked by Starjumper the R&S Cow 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
LMAO Lucid!!!
2007-10-15 23:50:04 · update #1
Great answers everyone, and I mean it. My kid just has a fear of black wearing bearded men! And also, somewhere down there it was said that my kid was a little horror Everywhere, not only in church, which I agree! LOL.
2007-10-16 01:04:44 · update #2
If you've given birth to the Antichrist, can I get to be the False Prophet, PLEEEAASSSEEE??????
Put in a good word for me, will ya?
2007-10-16 00:08:24 · answer #1 · answered by Jack B, goodbye, Yahoo! 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It sounds like you are not Greek but married to a Greek an Cretan too! Baptizing the child in the church is a big event here in Greece.
It is ridiculous though to say that you cannot enroll a child in school unless it is baptized!!!!!!
SO HOLD YOUR HORSES AND DO NT HURRY OFF TO BRUSSELS!!
If you don't want to baptize a child, but simply give the name you want to him or her you can fill a simple form (both parents signatures required) and put the son or daughter's name down like that.
As for the screaming and all this, come on!!! that's why we baptize them usually no more than a year old, so they dint freak out and kick everyone in the church!!! Holly oil has nothing to do with it (it is just virgin olive oil). If your boy is allergic to olive oil on his skin he would get a rush. But it is obviously a stress rush that nearly every baby gets in baptisms! Instead of thinking silly things like Antichrist stuff- relax, learn more about the country you chose to live and enjoy it!!!
Leave Brussels for later...............
2007-10-16 00:51:42 · answer #2 · answered by constantina B 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
At three years old he certainly should have behaved better.
His behavior would bother me more than the allergic reaction. There are people who are allergic to the incense, to the communion wafer, whatever. It doesn't mean anything other that you are allergic.
But his response to being in God's house and touched with holy oil...that seems a bit odd. Unless he's an unruly kid in general...then you have other issues.
Did you know your husband's family was religious when you married him? If so, why are you sounding so annoyed?
And a priest hitting on you is certainly inappropriate, but no reason not to go to Church. I'm sure you've been hit on other places...work, grocery store, gym...but continued going to those places.
Anyway...pray about it all. Ask God to lead you and ask that his will be done. Your son's eternal salvation should be more important than anything.
2007-10-15 23:54:30 · answer #3 · answered by Misty 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-20 13:58:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
-Your kid is fine.......being allergic is just being allergic. furthermore having a baby in front of all this noise and "strange" people inevitably would be frightening for him. so kicking the priest's balls sounds just funny, nothing more or less.
If you live in a small society, truth is, problems might occur-I mean about the "talk" you mentioned-they might not like you and your opinions and "lash" on your child-they'd better mind their own lives.
As for school enrollment, that's the most stupid part. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO ENROLL HIM, NO MATTER RELIGION.(is there any chance of you being "misguided" in order to accept the baptism?)
2007-10-16 08:27:11 · answer #5 · answered by cp19002 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
ok cindy is an idiot, do NOT listen to her/him, they obviously have no logic whatsoever.
there is nothing wrong with your kid, why is it that people think theres something wrong when a child is alergic to an ointment used by the church. people can be allergic to anything, including water (3 known cases worldwide)
the reason your child freaked out in front of the priest is probably because he scared the crap out of him.
have your child meet the preacher outside of church wearing normal clothes.
any loud noises that the priest does can also scare the child.
as for the crap about not being able to enroll your kid in school, move here to the states where we have freedom of religion, unless your an atheist
2007-10-15 23:55:31 · answer #6 · answered by alucard817 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It means precisely as you said it means: that he is allergic to something in the oil..... "holy" or not.
Admittedly... I got splashed with Holy Water while on a field-trip in.... Spain, I think it was. Either that or Italy. One of the other students went into the cathedral that I was sitting on the steps of, brought out some holy water... snuck up behind me and splashed it on me.
It burnt me. It was very unpleasant...
But then I have strange reactions to most water. And besides... it helped cement the realisation amongst the students that I am indeed undead.
2007-10-15 23:47:25 · answer #7 · answered by Lucid Interrogator 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
It means he is allergic to the oil. Simple as that. I know of people allergic to Extra Virgin olive oil (which is used in our blessings), they're not Beelzebub or similar.
2007-10-15 23:47:43 · answer #8 · answered by Bangbangbangbang 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If some weird old geezer touched my kid, I'd expect him to kick 'em in the balls too...
2007-10-16 00:50:52 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you are a good Christian you ought to take it seriously! Your story has a lot of flaws, but what the heck...!
2007-10-15 23:53:53 · answer #10 · answered by Opus 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋