Best Conversation of the Weekend

[bluegargantua]

"So honey, if we ever get married and settle down and have kids, is it OK if they get baptized?"

"HELL NO!"

"Well, see, my mom's threatened to baptize them herself in the kitchen sink if we don't do it."

"...."

This is going to be an interesting visit home...
Tom

Comments

[lindalee.livejournal.com]

Ew.

Sure, do whatever you want religiously for yourself, and I suppose for your own kids when they're young...but for someone else's kids? Ew.

[mhaille.livejournal.com]

I can understand her feelings. Pretty much everybody besides my parents (and therefore also my sister and I) is Very Catholic, and she truly believed that my parents were being negligent by not baptizing us in case we died as infants. (She had 10 kids, 7 of whom lived.)
I guess it depends on whether you truly believe that it's meaningless, and how much you want to allow a precedent of interfering.

[bluegargantua]

For the moment, I'm not particularly concerned. The baby thing is a ways off yet and while this would be a gross imposition of my mom's beliefs on our lives, I don't think getting water splashed on the kid is going to be the end of the world. Her intentions are certainly for the best if her actual implementation is a bit wonky.

For now, I can count on the passive-aggressive nature of Midwesterners. My mom will be charming to (and charmed by) Annie, and her concerns for the immortal souls of her grandchildren will pop up in phone conversations every now and again.

If Annie and I make it to getting married, the wedding alone will pretty much burn this bridge before we get to it.

later
Tom