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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up in a Catholic family, and if I were attending the funeral of my sibling's little child, I would just take communion even though I don't believe.

I would consider it my duty to do WHATEVER I could to minimize stress to everybody in the family.  I would think taking communion and keeping my mouth shut about it were the LEAST I could do.  I can't imagine being so self-absorbed as to make a thread about myself and whether I should take communion at my tiny niece's funeral.

If they wanted you to stand in a circle and worship the moon goddess, that would be your compassionate responsibility to do it, OP.  These parents lost their four year old!

If there is a god, I think he would also want you to just shut up and take the communion, if there was even a modicum of a chance that not doing so would cause stress to anyone else present, or divert an iota of thought/attention away from the memory of this poor little girl.[/quote]

NP. Thank you. That was my reaction to this thread. A loving God of any faith--and plain old common decency--would want OP to prioritize how she could minimize stress on the family. Not to prioritize herself and her not-quite-yet conversion (if OP is for real, which seems up for debate). And for those of you saying, "but confession," I'm not Catholic, but I truly, genuinely doubt the Catholic God is so rigid and rule-bound that he'd prefer she follow the rules and, in the process, offend a family who lost their four-year-old. C'mon, people.[/quote]

The Catholic God is pretty rigid and rule-bound!  You'd be surprised.[/quote]

Again. Even the Catholic God would prioritize stopping OP from staging a big, main character sideshow at a child's funeral. [/quote]

Since when is not taking communion a sideshow? the person staging the sideshow would be the one who got mad because OP didn’t take communion.[/quote]

Read the thread: "not taking communion" can take different forms. When "not taking communion" = going up to the altar and crossing your arms so everyone can see you don't believe, that's the definition of a sideshow. If you didn't want a sideshow, you would have "not taken communion" by remaining in your pew, which apparently Catholics do all the time. [/quote]

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