I was out the whole day yesterday. We left home early in the morning to travel to a province and attend the baptism of my friend’s daughter, where I was asked to be her godfather.

We got stuck in traffic and got there midway through the ceremony. I only got there in time to hear the last half of the priest’s bullshitting and hold on to a candle. I couldn’t understand a thing the guy was saying. He was mumbling the whole time. It’s hard to grasp how people could follow something like that. He leaves his audience to come up with their own deluded thoughts, which is probably why there is so much inconsistency all over their religion. They encourage lack of understanding. After all, once a person truly understands what’s going on, he will no longer be a Christian. I digress.

Immediately after the ceremony, we proceeded to the reception, which was the only part of the whole affair worth attending. Free food is always good. After stuffing myself, I asked a friend who was oblivious of my atheism what had happened before we had arrived.

He said it was all good up till the point where the actual baptism began. The baby was all fine in the beginning. Then came the time to pour water on her forehead and all hell broke loose. The baby was inconsolable from that point onwards. Sure, everyone would say that her cries were just a result of being wet, but I like to think of it as the child’s dismay at being cursed with Catholicism. With the pouring of that water, she’s doomed to spend the next several years of her life in a steady and continuous process of brainwashing. The indoctrination process has begun and she’s helpless to stop it.

Her family will make her pray at regular intervals. She’ll be taken to church to be assaulted by bullshit by the priests (who are unintelligible). She’ll be sent to Catholic school where the indoctrination will continue.

We can only hope that as her knowledge increases, she is able to resist the lies that will be fed to her all through her life beginning today. Luckily, she has her godfather, Ramon, to help her out.

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