Day 53 – Weekly Photo Challenge: Nostalgic

Some photographs of the christening I went to today.

I took some portraits for my boyfriends family (It was his nephew that was getting christened) but I also took some photographs for myself of the church. I feel this fits in to the nostalgia theme because although I have never been religious I went to church occasionally with my great grandparents when I was younger and I was christened at age five or six. I remember being asked whether I wanted to be christened and without knowing what it was about I said I did want to be christened because all of my friends were christened. That probably made my grandparents and mother happy and I’m OK with that. I have not been to church for a long time and the times I have, since I was too young to remember, have been funerals and possibly a wedding. As an atheist (sometimes bordering on anti-theist) going to church for me has always been somewhat of an interesting experience, I am torn between thinking of church and religion as a potential force for good and a community space for older generations and my head telling me its all rubbish and a method of control that’s holding back a thirst for knowledge in many.