But I found it a minor annoyance to find a forwarded email from my mother titled “Kids and God”. Don’t worry, I won’t share the entire email.
A bit of background: my 8-year-old brother is attending First Communion classes this year, and he absolutely hates it. He went to religious ed classes grudgingly last year; this year he acts like they’re sending him off to the guillotine. Maybe he’d prefer getting his head chopped off. Anyways…
The following is a paragraph that my mom added to the forwarded email before she passed it on, and I almost wet my pants from laughing so hard:
“Before you read the rest of this, one of those parent-things: my 8 year old is going to classes for first communion, mostly against his wishes. On the way to church last week, he asked me why we were going anyway. I told him we needed to connect with God. His reply, ‘Well, if the devil is under the earth and we’re on the earth and God is way up in Heaven, shouldn’t we be worshiping the one closest to us? We should worship the Devil.’”
Luthern Pastor 30 minutes before our first Cummunion.
Please remember that anyone taking Cummunion that doesn’t 100% beleive its the body and blood of Christ, is eternaly Damn.
He made it clear that if we ever had a doubt come into our minds say between the wafer and the wine, you were eternaly damned. You could never get into heaven after that. I wonder why I left that specific church?
Your in 8th grade, nervous and all the relatives are out there. The Pastor was completely serious. You do not speak up at this point standing in the anex. The result would have been, your not redeay for this, go!
oho-my daughter–aged 13.
goes thru the confirmation classes at our community church–we were huge members, my husband was the Treasurer, I chaired the Children’s Ministry Committee.
Yeah-well. She expressed doubts about her readiness to be confirmed.
So, she wasn’t confirmed. Fair enough.
But-then the pastor came to her and told her that she would not be able to go to our church camp and be a counselor/helper (she had gone for the past 2 years).
This devastated her. And changed my feelings about this church in a heartbeat.
We are no longer “huge” in this church.
Apparently, one is not allowed to have doubts about faith as an adolescent.
Whatever.
I think the OP’s brother is right–love the one you’re closest too, baby!
Yeah, my mom’s church (Anglican-Use Catholic) has started confirming the kids younger and younger so they’re less likely to be able to object. I think my brother was 11 or 12 when he was confirmed. I was nearly 14 and didn’t want to, but I was pretty sure my parents would KILL me if I said so.
Is there a form I can fill out to formally renounce all the sacraments I was forced to participate in?
That’s a hilarious story, by the way. Such a pragmatist!
