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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The point of confirmation is making a choice. If you force her to do it, you are dishonoring the process and teaching her to build a false relationship with god. I was confirmed in this manner and it was completely meaningless. For me it reinforced that it was all a show. [/quote]

I was raised in the Presbyterian church. We called confirmation "joining the church" . It was supposed to be an act of free will.  As part of the process, we met with the Session of the church without our parents present in order to discuss our faith. They wouldn't have confirmed anyone was was coerced or who didn't want to do it.[/quote]

During year two of the three-year confirmation process in our ELCA Lutheran church, my son announced that he didn’t want to continue or be confirmed.  It was entirely his decision and we talked about it at some length.  And that was that.

He is his own person, entitled to his own life, spiritually and otherwise.[/quote]

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