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Mother’s Day 2009

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My older sister calls me this morning to asks me something.

“I need to ask you something.”

“What?”

“Do you want to be Ethan’s Godmother?”

I screamed for awhile and then said, “YES!” I’m already my niece’s Godmother, so I am glad to also be my nephew’s. This is when she decides to drop the bomb on me.

“You will have to join a church,” my sister sheepishly says.

With my niece, my sister was able to allow her church to bypass that rule, but it seems with this church, they are not as forthcoming.

This really bothers me. What if I was an Atheist or Agnostic? I wouldn’t be able to be a godparent?

Derrick asked the question this week wondering who was religious. Many people answered that they were spiritual, but not religious. I was one of those people. I’ve read books on different religions, and I have talked to many people. I don’t think there is one religion that has it more right than the rest. All of them have gotten bits and pieces right, so I don’t believe that I have to go to one over the other.

Now, I have to join a church and go (probably) for a month to become my nephew’s Godmother. There is another issue I have with this. I will feel awful doing this to a church. You meet the people and invest time in getting to know them, just so you never go after a month? I think that is just as wrong.

I’m really having issues with this, and I really feel like calling my sister’s church and raising these questions to them. Or should I just do this for my nephew, even though I don’t think he is really benefitting in any of this. The only thing maybe is that he is going to be getting spoiled by me. However, I am his aunt, so he would anyway.