Rant #1 - Child baptisms

First rant's gonna be about no less than...

Baptisms at the earliest possible age.

The Christian ones, of course.

Why am I ranting about this topic? What brought me to say this? Where was I and what influenced me?

Well, let's just say that, as an atheist, it hurts me plenty to see small children being indoctrinated with a belief that I, personally, see as a tale euqal to that of let's say Snow White or any other Grimm Brothers'.

Last Sunday I... was brought to a local mass. It just happened to be the Baptism of the Lord Sunday (who cares?), so the baptisms of all the children in 2013 was celebrated and that particular mass was dedicated to the bunch of little crying babies from the past year.

A hundred and seventy-one of them.

A hundred and seventy-one children that could have been lead into a more free life, but instead have been... well, shoved into a life of what I consider to be lies and tales.

A hundred and seventy-one children that chould have a reasonable outlook on life, yet are going to be forced into a specific point of view which may not be considered completely accurate. And they're going to go through the doctrination through primary schools, get the 1st Communion in 2nd class, get the Confimation in 6th class and by the time they themselves can realise "oh wait, this isn't right" and break out of the mindset, it's quite likely it's gonna be too late. And they're gonna have real fun confronting the Science secondary school curriculum.

Although, in all fairness, the approach to religion these days, at least in Europe and the Catholic faith, is starting to relax and, especially the youngsters, people are not taking it as seriously anymore. They may believe, but practice is falling apart, it seems to me. And more and more people are saying, "I broke out of the mindset jail," that is, losing their faith in a superdeity, which, for all I care, doesn't exist. As the Aussies posted on a billboard, "In the beginnin, man created God" and I thoroughly agree.

If the children are going to realize the potential of being free from a faith, then I shall be quite the content man. Otherwise... well, it's not like I'm gonna have sleepless nights or anything. The potential has been lost, but what can I do?

Either way, let's just all hope that this thing is going to decline. For all I care, my children will not be by any means introduced officially into any religion or faith. Let them think freely. Hell's blazes, I'm even gonna battle it all out in the schools if that's what I'm gonna have to do.

Weddings, I can bear. Funerals, I rather bear. But baptisms? Nyeah. Rather not.

I was indoctrinated, but I broke free. is my answer for today.