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I was asked to be the God Father of my sisters newborn daughter Madison Emma.

Most people don’t know this but I am actually a very spirtial person and this weighs heavy on me. I’m not spiritual in the typical catholic sense but I feel I have a very strong relationship with God. I guess what hits me hard about this is that my spirtual beliefs are so far astray with mainstream catholicism that I don’t know if I “Should” be a god father.

I guess what it comes down to is my faith is primarily Chritian based but with a daily ethic, values, and morals of a buddhist. Or at least, I try to live by buddhist ethic. Is it wrong for me to want to be the god father but teach the child to be open to god and not just narrow minded in her view? If I take on this responsibility should I refrain from slipping her buddhist thoughts that might help her deal with the day to day life issues that we all know so well?

I guess the problem is that as with everything in catholicism, this is a bond between me, church, Madison and her parents, and as in most things in catholicism I think It should be between me, god, madison and her parents. I guess that’s where my hatred for organized religion is that I firmly believe in seperating god from church/mass.