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In the 9 years since then, I have performed no godparently duties.
you just keep making yourself seem horribler and horribler by the day, scott.
*rob*
dave, lol, and I know to whom you’re referring, but I out-Jew him in the last name department. It would be much better if they hadn’t added a letter — and it’s the letter that makes is SO much worse — when my grandfather’s family landed on Ellis Island.
PB, thanks, I have no problem with my first name (i.e., Carroll), or my middle initial, but I just find the last name “TOO Jewish”, as Jackie Mason would say. I mean, Gardenedberg??? C’mon!!
“Anyone who is not baptized winds up in Limbo for all eternity after they die.”
My son was never baptized, and my grandmother apparently told my mother several times how she felt so sorry for “the poor heathen boy.”
She tried to get my mom to have him baptized in secret while my mom was watching him.
lol bxgirl hahahha.. okay im going to go try and lay down and get better. i pooped like six times and it’s not even noon. wtf?
*rob*
In my Catholic family growing up, godparents were almost always an aunt and uncle. I never remember mine having any role at all in my spiritual life, and my relationship was no different than any other aunt and uncle.
The one impact it did have was somehow my dad’s side of the family got upset with me since my parents chose godparents on my mom’s side.
My sister’s godparents were on my dad’s side, and she always got much better presents than me from the entire family at Christmas and birthday time.
When my nephew was born, my sister asked me to be a godparent when he was baptized in a Episcopal church. I protested that as an atheist I would make a terrible Christian godparent. She said that she still wanted me to do it, so I stood in front of a priest and said some stuff that I really did not believe to make my sister happy.
In the 9 years since then, I have performed no godparently duties.
Your first name is not Jewish-sounding, CGar.
I won’t say, DIBS, but it ain’t Peaches.
Montrose;
It also dawned on me that I didn’t show you the historic homes in Gravesend: Lady Moody’s home, the old Duth Reformed Church, some surviving Dutch farmhouses, etc. Perhaps we’ll do another trip in the Spring.
Could my name possibly sound MORE Jewish???
Yes. I just got an email from another PLUSA.