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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, your MIL made a choice. She put her religion, and by extension, one side of her family before yours. Now YOU have a choice to make.

My choice would be to back up and build a world around your family, especially your children, that supports them and nurtures them, for who they are, because they are wonderful, amazing people, and not agents of a religion.

Your small-minded ILs' loss. I'm sorry, but sometimes as parents we need to choose the sources of love for our kids when a family tree doesn't provide it.[/quote]

The same could be said of the PP.  She is putting her religion above her MIL.  Does she really not understand that a Jewish grandparent would not want to celebrate the baptism of her grandchild?  In a million years, I would not celebrate my grandchild being baptized.  The fact that the PP doesn't seem to get how [b]she is hurting her MIL by baptizing her child[/b] speaks for itself.[/quote]

So people should chose for their children whatever religion makes their MILs happy. Does that mean atheists should raise their child to be religious if it makes the MIL happy?[/quote]

The point is that the PP is married to a Jew.  Does she really think that his Jewish relatives want to celebrate that one of their relatives is Christian?  I don't think it's unreasonable for this woman's MIL to feel the way she does.  If the PP is going to baptize her child and then throw it in her MIL's face, she shouldn't be shocked and appalled at her MIL's reaction.  Don't complain that someone is choosing religion over family when you are doing the exact same thing.  The fact that her husband goes along with all of this is unbelievable.[/quote]

You are a poor representation of an important religion and culture. Undoubtedly you will respond with your soft-gloved, fence-straddling approach when called out, but your true feelings are loud and clear. Prejudice is ugly.[/quote]

Well... If Jews continue to intermarry and raise children who aren't Jewish, there eventually won't be an important religion and culture to represent.  [/quote]

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