Comments | shake_the_stars: Lo, the Bishop Cometh

shake_the_stars

Lo, the Bishop Cometh

May 10, 2006 21:36

Because if the bishop is coming all the way out here to confirm ninth-grade kids, ninth-grade kids ARE BY GOD GOING TO BE CONFIRMED. At least, such is the opinion of most parents around here. I guess mine were fairly progressive, since I was never confirmed and subsequently served as a Bad Example for several years of m0mmy's confirmation class. ( ( Read more... )

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Comments 9

forgottensanity May 11 2006, 09:41:12 UTC

You people get confirmed at 16? I think over here it's more like 13 or 14. I'm not entirely sure since I was never confirmed myself, nor baptized. The kids who were to be confirmed had classes with the local priest every Tuesday from 8 to 10, which I was happy about since I could then sleep in late. Woot. I don't know what they talked about there, but I imagine it to be lacking in interest. I don't know about the actual confirmation ceremony either, but afterwards everyone has a party where the family and friends are invited and gifts are given, etc, and all the kids get a new set of clothing in white. It's rather secular, I suppose, but of course I don't know what everyone else did. Despite my not being confirmed I still got the party and the gifts and the white dress, which I wore ONCE. Me and white don't mix well. Of course Denmark is a Christian country, and I am not entirely aware of how much Christians and Catholics differ in that aspect.

shake_the_stars May 12 2006, 01:33:40 UTC

Actually, Catholics ARE Christian; we're the oldest denomination of Christianity, and we changed and were changed by Rome. ^_- Luther could hardly have reformed Christendom if there weren't any Christendom to reform, and before Luther, if you were Christian, you were a.) Catholic, b.) Orthodox, or c.) a member of some heretical sect and one day you woke up to find that you had not been expecting the Spanish Inquisition. But then, nobody does ( ... )

forgottensanity May 12 2006, 09:39:12 UTC

Heh, well, I've never said I was knowledgeable in the ways of religion. =P I guess I see Christians and Catholics as two separate - but somewhat alike - religions and don't give much thought to what they started out as.

I don't know if adults or the like can get confirmed later over here. I mean, they probably can and all that, since the churches all go, "OMG LEIK M0ER MEBEMBERZ!!!11!" But I can't say I've ever heard of any who did. On the other hand, I don't hang out with religious crowds, so what do I know? My knowledge comes mostly from hearsay anyway.

I also imagine that if only confirmation cake = Othello cake, I could have been persuaded to go. ^_^ Mmmm. Cake.

shake_the_stars May 13 2006, 04:38:29 UTC

I figured. It's just a very common misconception--especially in my area, which is the northernmost reach of the Bible Belt--and it's one that pisses me off in general, especially because some of the people who espouse it (not you, since you're not religious) are being deliberately ignorant.

Yeah, but you would have showed up for the cake and left immediately after you someone ate it all. Bit like my birthday cake that one year. ^_-

Thread 6

ziggy_prime May 11 2006, 12:13:10 UTC

the kids have to be drilled

Images of little catholics and powertools dance in my head...

shake_the_stars May 12 2006, 01:05:43 UTC

Surrealism is my #1 priority.

ziggy_prime May 12 2006, 01:16:15 UTC

Hold still, Timmy. Salvation requires Stanley.