Good point, though Catholics are (can be?) pretty darn mild when it comes to hell. My wife and surrounding community are super tame concerning things like that. There’s no outright judgment, but they still probably pray for the future of my soul.
I also plan on opposing things that seem to be unjustified/unreasonable outright. Hell would be one. First communion at age seven is another example. No child can comprehend what they need to in order to profess that a wafer just had it’s essence turned into the flesh of a non-physical deity while retaining all of its physical characteristics.
While things seem to be okay at the moment, we haven’t crossed a time-sensitive binary option bridge like communion yet. Thus, I don’t know what the reaction will be toward my resistance. My wife is very sensitive to her social environment and I think she will feel a lot of guilt and shame for not having her kids go through visible rituals like the sacraments (like everyone else’s kids).
Not to mention, once they’re at that age, all of our friends’ kids will be receiving communion and ours will be sitting there. This will be a stab in the heart every single week.
Good point, though Catholics are (can be?) pretty darn mild when it comes to hell. My wife and surrounding community are super tame concerning things like that. There’s no outright judgment, but they still probably pray for the future of my soul.
I also plan on opposing things that seem to be unjustified/unreasonable outright. Hell would be one. First communion at age seven is another example. No child can comprehend what they need to in order to profess that a wafer just had it’s essence turned into the flesh of a non-physical deity while retaining all of its physical characteristics.
While things seem to be okay at the moment, we haven’t crossed a time-sensitive binary option bridge like communion yet. Thus, I don’t know what the reaction will be toward my resistance. My wife is very sensitive to her social environment and I think she will feel a lot of guilt and shame for not having her kids go through visible rituals like the sacraments (like everyone else’s kids).
Not to mention, once they’re at that age, all of our friends’ kids will be receiving communion and ours will be sitting there. This will be a stab in the heart every single week.