My son's first day at church...

Awesome! Often parents force religion on their kids but don't set the best example for them. My parents shoved us on to private Catholic schools and told us that the Ten Commandments were our laws .. that was a hard concept to swallow when you routinely saw your parents breaking almost every single Commandment. Hazzah for giving your children the freedom to choose their own path of worship!

LOL yea shocking isnt it...I had to double check and make sure it was me too LOL could have been my Sybil ;-) but nope it is me LOL... I would have not been so inclined to let him go if it was a church I wasnt familiar with at all or if it was a Catholic church for example OR if the family he went with was hardcore fundies ya knwo...but none of those things are the case so it was all good....The church he went to was a Baptist church which according to my husbnad is more laid back than many churches (not to mention its the main church that both kids friends go to due to our location) and i did have a very intense talk with my boy about it all first...LOL as far as the off chance that he'd come home calling me evil or what have you, he'd know better for numerous reasons ;-) He was just curious which is cool with me...I was actually impressed that he even asked considering the flack he has gotten over the yrs from some of the students aftr they find out I'm Pagan ya know..the fact that he's still willing to explore is beyond wicked fabulous in my books :-)....I also knwo that part of the reason was cause of this girl too LOL AND with his gramma dying last week and them being Christian I think it all ties in together if that makes sense ya knwo....

Hehe, yup, really you! =P Ah, you didn't give a lot of that information, so I was a little worried. I think it's great that you knew about the church, the family, and all that beforehand, and had a talk with him first. Under those circumstances, I could see going. Where I come from the Baptists are actually the big fundies, but they're also "Southern Baptist" which is a whole different thing from regular Baptist. *giggles* *nods* I think it's awesome that he's curious too! I want my son to be curious like that and learn about a lot of different beliefs. Of course, in our case, he can do all that in one place, since we got to a Unitarian Universalist fellowship, and we teach/learn/accept all faiths there. Haha, I can see part of it being about the girl too. I actually went to a Christian church some when I was younger because of a guy, but they had an awesome young minister who was also my friend, so it wasn't really as weird for me as it would have been otherwise.

All the churches I've been to that were baptist, were fundy churches. The only sermons I've ever heard were; "paul said this, paul said that", "if you don't accept Jesus as your savior, you're going to hell", "the end times are near, so you better get saved today before it's too late", "homosexuals are evil and going to hell", ect. In other words, they taught about the usual fundy stuff. They never taught about Jesus and his teachings, only what Paul says. These types of churches should stop calling themselves Christians and give themselves a name that has to do with Paul. Maybe like Paulines?