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I'm atheist. Never seen an single exorcism or christening ritual in my life...

I'm an atheist too but my grandparents are Christian and they insisted on making me Christened because… something something magic man in the sky

It's less about the magic man in the sky, and more about the lake of fire. And I'm a little disappointed that atheists are so flippant about their parents getting them baptized. I mean, they believe that without baptism you would have burned in hell for eternity, and the cared enough to not let that happen. Maybe say thank you? Something along the lines of, "Hey, even though I don't believe in God, I appreciate that you guys do, so thank you for getting me baptized so I didn't burn in hell for eternity."? I'm always confused when atheists get offended that people proselytize to them. Like, they believe that there is paradise everlasting, and all you need to do to get there is believe that Jesus died for your sins. I'd be more offended if they didn't try to get me in on that.

Dude I'm not flippant about this, I'm just saying that it's a useless thing to do. Besides, this whole "they were nice to you by doing things their faith tells them is good" is bs. Sure, they believe baptism is good, but the reason they're doing is because "that's how we've been doing it for decades". Saving you is a secondary reason, the main reason is the survival of the tradition itself, the reason is not breaking the status quo, doing things as usual. Seriously, I have nothing against people believing in something, but the ritualisms connected to many religions just get on my nerves. It's literally no different than tribes in Africa dancing around the fire, yet many Christians would brand those as savage. Which is where I think there's a massive hypocrisy. "My rituals are pure. But their rituals are just savage!" But I'm probably biased because I just think that centuries old traditions are at best useless (like Christmas), at worst harmful (like male circumcision).

Well, I disagree, and it sounded to me like you were being flippant. My bad.

No it's okay, I wanted my comment to sound flegmatic but I guess I failed. And it's cool to disagree, I'm sure there are Christians who really do it because they care about the child, I'm just describing my case specifically. I'm still going to stand by my statement about ritualisms and traditions, though.

Right on.