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When religious traditions become empty family obligations

My wife wants to baptize our baby because it's what her family expects but neither of us believes it means anything and we're fighting about whether to just go through the motions.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Inherited rituals become sources of conflict when their meaning has evaporated but their social importance remains.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Secular legacy in a post-religious age?”

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