Well, I have never been confirmed in any religion. I was baptized when I was four, by a methodist, and circumcised by a seventh day adventist doctor, who read the scripture concerning circumcision.
My father was raised methodist as was his father, but his mother was catholic. My mother had a Catholic Grandfather, but mom was confirmed as an episcopalian as was her grandmother. Her mother became divorced and married a Presbyterian, who became a 32rd degree Freemason.
We all attended a Presbyterian church growing up, on the advice from my grandfather. My older brother could not understand the presbyterians, and began dating a Mormon girl whose father was a bishop. After that he went to the Oral Roberts university for a week with a friend to see if he could get along with them. That didn’t work out.
He met a Catholic girl, and while he was with her went through the catechism and was confirmed a catholic.
My younger brother, considers himself a presbyterian, but married a Southern Baptist and he and his children had attended with the baptists for many years, until they then all started attending a presbyterian church.
Well, when confirmation time came for me, I had not known that it had started. I when to the church some days late and I was not formally dressed. The class was led by a woman, and she went burserque when she saw me. She was filled with raca, she shouted for quite a long time to all of us how the presbyterians were warring against people like me.
No one ever appologised, I never was confirmed. My parents didn’t seem to know what had happened, I didn’t tell them. I came to the services a few times after that, no one said anything, until one sunday a girl told my brother that the church was certain that I would be going to hell. She wouldn’t say it to me though, and none of the others would either.
I think this was the reason that my brother, rejected them all, and became a catholic.
My family doesn’t worry about me not being a member of a church, and says jokingly that I am Jewish.
My father worked with Jewish people for many years. And my brother became a teacher, who leaned his art from a Jewish woman who had been an accomplished opera singer.
I have quite a number of cousins. I don’t know all of the religions that they might be following, many are catholic, but some of them are Jewish.
I am grateful that God has answered my prayers, and thats all I have, there seems no least about that…
