I've tried three times now to right about this Sunday's baptism. Every time though my thoughts come out much more hostile than they need to. I'm not hostile to tradition, just the stupid ones. I know my sister doesn't believe in Original Sin; she just wants an excuse for a party. But surely there are better ways to kick off a celebration than by staging a neonatal wet t-shirt competition. Besides, how many good party stories begin with the sentence "So there I was in church..."?
My babies are going to have secular naming events. And they aren't having god-parents. They will have mentors and guardians. There will be no hymns, no prayers and no church. Don't religious traditions seem much more fun when you take all the religion away?
