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Baptism in Unitarian Church Stephens Green

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  • 06-06-2011 4:27pm
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    LegacyUser
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    Hi all

    Just wondering has anyone had their child christened in the Unitarian church in Stephens Green? Im up in the air on wether or not to christen them in catholic church or not. The unitarian church seems to be more a welcome ceremony than anything else but we will probably face the same problems in future with getting them into school as if we had not had them christened at all.


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    Moonbeam
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    If you do not want to get them christened do not. There are plenty of educate together schools and there is going to be an overhaul of primary school system in the next few years.


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    Sleepy
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    We've had very little issue with the whole "needing to be baptised to get into a good scholl thing". Maybe it's a bit smart-arsed but we simply sent the eldest lad to the local protestant school. Smaller class sizes, better work ethic than anything I remember from my Catholic managed education, no worries about communions or confirmations to be made and generally a more inclusive attitude in general.

    The Educate Together Schools are gaining traction at a great rate at the moment and show great promise imho. They also have the advantage of a parent-body that are more concerned about their children's' education than the norm.

    I'd also be fairly confident that the Catholic stranglehold over the education system will plummet in the next decade. They're simply an irrelevant organisation in a country with less than 10% Catholics (I refuse to consider non-practicing or a-lá-carte "catholics" as adherrants since the church's own dogma wouldn't consider them Catholics either).


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