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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Atheist here with 5 catholic baptized god-children.

With each one I braced for the moment when the intolerable priest (5 different churches, BTW) would grill me about my beliefs and promises and I would have to back out.

That [b]never[/b] occurred. Not even once.  Not even close.

It's an honor like serving in a wedding party at a church, IMHO.  You don't have to follow the religion to participate in a wonderful thing.

It creates a special bond with the kid.  Anyone who says it carries mandatory dogmatic responsibility being a petulant jerk.  If the parents know what you think and ask you anyway that means you are the kind of person they want their kid to look up to.

Do it and enjoy it.[/quote]

Liar.  The rite of baptism in the Catholic Church specifically includes the priest asking the godparents if they are ready to help the parents in their Christian duty to the child.

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Lol. I highly highly doubt she is lying. DHs culturally catholic, C&E family is just like this. No one comes right out and says they are an atheist but I expect some probably are. None of them take their religion seriously at all. It’s more of a cultural thing. They still get their kids baptized just fine, and use each other as godparents. Yes the rite includes wording..people just repeat, say “we will” or whatever- they don’t really mean it (at least as interpreted by the Church). Godparents are just a special aunt uncle or family friend who get you gifts for birthdays etc. This is not even remotely uncommon..[/quote]

I was responding specifically to the PP's assertion that the priest was "not even close" to asking her to promise anything.  And if you nonchalantly responded "I will," then you were lying too.  Sorry to hear how little this concerns any of you.  Many of us are not simply going through the motions, and there are more of us out there than you might guess.  [/quote]

I’m the poster with the “cafeteria catholic ILs” above. All I was stating is that I highly doubt that poster was a liar. From what I have seen this is highly common. For what it’s worth I tend to agree with you- why do the sacraments is they aren’t meaningful? But not everyone agrees snd there’s is often heavy heavy family and cultural pressure. The solution IMO is for the Catholic families/cultures to encourage more honesty for those who don’t really believe or take these things seriously but that will happen when pigs fly IMHO. As long as “no one wants to upset grandma” etc this is going to continue to be a large subset of the Church. Just saying. And yes there is a also a large portion of serious Catholics and yet another group of Catholics who are somewhere in the middle.

You really should not have called that poster a liar. Just not necessary in the least. [/quote]

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