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To: Sea Otter who wrote (624303)	8/14/2011 5:41:24 PM
From: Taro	Respond to of 1574711

My wife is a (Japanese) Buddhist, I am born a (Swedish) protestant. Our boys were born in Munich and went to closest (catholic) Kindergarten. My big son had catholic religion in school for the first 3 years and later protestant with his friend. Because of our mixed background we did not have them baptized as kids but decided to let them decide for themself later. They both decided to be baptized at 15 prior to their protestant confirmation. While the kids were small I asked a catholic priest, if delaying their baptism wouldn't be risky, since according to the 'truth' they would end up in limbo of prematurely taken by the great reaper prior to having been baptized... Well, he told us not to take that so literally with the risk being quite low for such unpleasant things to happen to small kids. I did read all of Kierkegaard (in Danish since I am fluent in that language) and for all his religion and studies and spending most of his 43 years short life dealing with his difficult God, he still could never make than final step, the one which would take him to the final stage of unconditionally believing in and devotion to the God of our Holy Bible. At least he tried and still he didn't make it. I am not a man of church and have devoted my life to other issues and opportunities, but that said, no way would I ever take any stance against those obvious big mysteries, which we humans will always be to tiny to understand. Let's say I am a practical and thus maybe even a very selfish person. Again, these are issues, which to me are very private and in no way easy to deal with in a constructive way. That's why I never became a priest. /Taro