I think this baptism also has changed my relationships and the way I look at my sister and brother-in-law. Before, we never really talked about religion, and I did not realize how important it was to them, and how they wanted to raise their children in the Church. It just did not seem to mean that much to me. However, after I saw the baptism, I would not say that I got more spiritual, but I did understand my family better and their goals for their children. I saw it was important to have goals and ideas about how you want to raise your children, and I saw that it made me feel closer to my sister, her husband, and my nephew. Now, I have ideas and goals about my own family, when I have one. I also try to spend as much time as I can with my nephew. I want to see him grow up and turn into an adult, and see just how my family's ideals and hopes affect him and his future. I like to play with him, and I hope that he can carry a little bit of me and my love into...
I think if anything it has helped make me open to and aware of new experiences. Now, I try not to be so quick to condemn something I do not understand or know much about. I was not open to the baptism at first; I was a kid who wanted to do something else on a Saturday afternoon. Now, I understand that the ritual of that day was profound in some ways, and that I should be more open to new things and more open to new ideas that might not be the same as my own. It has made me look at things differently, including how important family is in our lives and in our futures. I think my sister and brother-in-law want only the best for my nephew, and that participating in this ritual helped show their love, their devotion, and their very strong commitment as parents to raising their child decently and with hope and strength for the future.
...social conditioning was effected in such a way, that any thing that was considered primal, pagan, or unchristian, was frowned upon... [leading to] persecution of the Druids, Witches, Gypsy, and Jewish cultures that still continues today." Curiously, it may be that very historical hostility towards the primal which has corroded the power of Catholic sacred music and turned new catholics and protestants alike against it. In the Jewish ritual, music of
Religion Vocabulary, Christianity: citing your sources: • Gospel -- pertains to one of the first four books of the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), or refers more generally to the life and teachings of Jesus (Babylon) • parable -- a "symbolic story" that teaches a moral or religious lesson (Babylon) • baptism -- initiation into Christianity via ritual submergence in water (Babylon) • trinity -- group of three; in Christianity, referring particularly to
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Indeed, it is as if the U.S. Congress or president were to decide what constituted Christian doctrine and scripture, and everyone went along at the peril of their lives, according to Bidstrup. The result of the Bible's origins as selected parts of whole bodies of scripture, written by at least a hundred and fifty different people in dozens of different places at different times, many centuries apart, and for different reasons,
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