IIN to ask close friends to be god parents if you aren't religious?

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  • Boojum
    4 years ago | pl

    Your spelling suggests you're British. If you live in the UK, you might want to check out the Humanists. Here's a page about Humanist naming ceremonies:

    https://humanism.org.uk/ceremonies/humanist-namings/faqs/

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    • SwickDinging
      4 years ago | pl

      Thanks for the reply Boojum, ever the fountain of good advice!

      I am from the UK but I don't live there anymore.

      I'm skeptical about the humanist side of things... It always seemed to me to essentially be another religion (albeit a more logical, down to earth one...) I'll look into though.

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      • Boojum
        4 years ago | pl

        No reason you can't read up on how the Humanists do their naming ceremonies and design your own.

        If you're not religious, then it would be pretty hypocritical to ask the friends you'd like to take a particular interest in your child's well-being to stand around a puddle of water, renounce the Devil, and promise to make the poor tyke believe in Jeebus.

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      • SamanthaTheGoat
        4 years ago | pl

        Swick. There aren't any logical religions. The definition of a religious belief is faith. Faith is illogical. Just saying.

        I once had faith that humans wouldn't kick a dead person. I was wrong.

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        • SwickDinging
          4 years ago | pl

          This made me smile because I recently had a similar debate on here and said exactly what you have just said! Faith by it's very nature is not supposed to be logical, I completely agree.

          I suppose the reason I've said that here is because I don't think humanism requires faith, I used the term religious more in the sense of organised religion, IE ceremonies etc. Hopefully that makes sense. You definitely caught me out there though haha :)

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          • SamanthaTheGoat
            4 years ago | pl

            To quantify. I have faith my dogs love me, I have zero proof they don't just use me for food and shelter.

            They don't eat my face because they know my face will give em breaky. Hehe

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          • SamanthaTheGoat
            4 years ago | pl

            I didn't try to but hehe. I don't know what humanism is tbh. I never came across it yet. But I do know faith is illogical but it's awesome.

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    • SamanthaTheGoat
      4 years ago | pl

      Why their use of U?

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      • Boojum
        4 years ago | pl

        You mean why is the British spelling "honour" instead of "honor" as it is the USA?

        That's largely due to a guy named Noah Webster who produced the first American dictionary nearly 200 years ago. Before that, he published "spellers" for use in primary schools. In the early 1800s, there were multiple acceptable spellings for many words in both American and British English, but Webster picked the ones he thought were most sensible. It was also a nationalist thing: Webster wanted American spelling to be different to the most common British usage. So humour/humor, fibre/fiber, defence/defense, etc.

        Because of snobbery about "Americanisms" in Britain, British publishers settled on spellings that were opposite to what Webster chose.

        So it's just a trivial example of the petty stupidity that follows from the usual my-dick-is-bigger-than-yours nationalism.

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