Were you Christened? - I wasn't

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My family are white working/middle class average kind of people but as you can see from the title I was never Christened as a child. My parents although very open minded and spiritual people never really followed the Christian doctrine, they were married in a registry office rather than a church and pomp and circumstance was just never their thing.

This never bothered me as a kid although I seemed to be the odd one out among all my friends I just forgot about it, it didn't sound like I had missed out, just a bit of water on the head...so what.

When I was 13 my cousin was born and I ended up going to the Christening, I had never been to one before and was shocked to hear the true meaning or it! I found out that being Christened allowed you to enter the kingdom of God when you died. After the ceremony I was a bit shocked and slightly worried about my future. I can clearly remember pondering it all for quite a few days haha.

Anyway now I've grown up and had a chance to look into spirituality myself I'm pleased I was never Christened and wouldn't consider Christening my children if I have them. I believe in God (higher intelligence) but don't follow the Christian ideas of the world so I like the fact that I was never involved in a ceremony that I myself have no belief in.

Were you Christened? Do you have any thoughts on it now your older and would you Christen your own Children?
 
I was, but to this day i am not sure what it means or how it benefits me. We've never gone near a church as a family.
 
I'm a Christian but was never Christened. Seems a bit weird to me that a child who can't make their own decisions can be given the label "Christian" before they can even comprehend the ideas behind the religion.
 
i was never christianed either and glad of it i dont believe a bit of water splashed on you is the key to a gd afterlife .to me good living and respecting other ppl as equals is the best way to whateva after life there might be.
 
You're basically going to get turned away at the gates of Heaven, sorry about that. I heard Hell isn't that bad, just a daily schedule of torture, pain and eternal agony. :)
 
p4radox said:
I'm a Christian but was never Christened. Seems a bit weird to me that a child who can't make their own decisions can be given the label "Christian" before they can even comprehend the ideas behind the religion.
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I totally agree,

As the first Christian in the thread let me take this opertunity to say this is in no way an anti-Christian thread and although I myself am not Christian and do not believe a lot of things involved in the faith, you will find in the past I have defended many merits of the religion and I am still fascinated by it, as with all the religions.
 
Used to be quite a Christian family (well my grandmother and aunt are), I used to got to sunday school till i was 6/7 - Never christened though.
I'm atheist now anyway - I'd burst into flames when i step into a church.

Strangely my sister wanted to be a couple of years ago, so we had one for her.
 
I was baptized into the catholic faith but by the time my brother was born,18 months later, my parents had lapsed so I have no memory of church. we never had my daughter christened, though we did have a celebration of her birth with the family 19 years ago.
 
Unfortunately I was Christened. Wish I hadn't been, but I guess it doesn't make all that much difference to me now.
 
I think people use the fact that you need to be christend to get into heaven as Jesus himself went out of his way to be christen by JtB. So if he thought it was important, then surely people who follow his faith also need it?

Me, not religous yet, still looking into it. Id rather get to heaven and say - shucks, wrong again, rather than lie my way in... Im sure god knows my true beliefs anyway.

But if your Christian, then yes, go get baptised/christen. I think its the same thing? although i could be wrong..

ColiN
 
real name is Christian but I was never Christened

I like the idea of Christian morality and good values, but when it comes down to going to church and praying to God...I'm a man of certainty and praying to something I don't really know exists just seems totally daft and pointless.
 
MookJong said:
This never bothered me as a kid although I seemed to be the odd one out among all my friends I just forgot about it, it didn't sound like I had missed out, just a bit of water on the head...so what.
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Really?

Not sure what the actual numbers would be. But I'm surprised that you felt like the odd one out for not being Christened, I'd have suspected it was the opposite and that most people are like you and aren't Christened.
 
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