QUOTE(SPLw**kw**kw**k @ Jun 27 2005, 19:40)
No you don't stick them in a box you let them grow up freely and find out all about life, religion etc all on their own. Then if they want to follow religion at all they can, of their own free will. What you don't do is take them as a 5, 6, 7, 8 or whatever year old, dress them up like a bride or groom, shower them with presents and label it as a communion. It's bribery, nothing else!
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Interesting how your arguement seems to take on only one slant...
There is a certain eastern religion (I forget which) that is common in Britain which requires pre-adolscent males to wear their hair in a bun and have a doily/hanky thing tied to it. That is their custom and it is no-one's place to judge it. It may look odd to some of us, but a rational person would not dream of telling the parents to let the child "choose their own way".
Doubt you would either, but you clearly have a problem with the RC religion.
Perhaps you are no stranger to a flute.
Oh, by the way, "Bribery" is paying someone money to do something for you that may be illegal/risky, so that you don't get into trouble.
AT
Edit - forgot to add FTOF!