lördag 9 januari 2010

An important ceremony in start of life and our common future

Today I was fortuned to be invited to a basic christian ceremony based the sacrament of baptism. A four month old baby boy was the VIP for the day and all celebrations. His parents and his sister and brothers where all an active part of it. The celebration was to welcome this new person, a newly born human being into the world of love that the christianity wants to give to him all his life. It is also a reminder to all of us participating how important this person is to our future. There are different kind of ceremonies during one persons life. This is the first official one. The last one is when a person dies and leaves the living part of the human family. These two ceremonies are very different and the person himself can only consciously participate in the first one. What about the muslim and islamic ceremonies? Is there a ceremony when a new human being is born as well? Not baptism but something with the similar meaning or for other reasons in order to welcome the baby and to give everybody a reminder of how important every new born human being is for our common future? I give myself a task to look for the answer and tell Per Robin Elof about it later on.

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