Proxy baptismal after death without consent..that's really fucked up. I'm no fan of organized religion in any forms. It's all controlled by people and people always have personal motives. Be personally spiritual, but be critical. There's something more to life than we understand, something I think we knew in our past, but lost. Idk if it's spiritual, energy based, inter dimensional, extraterrestrial or any combination of the above, or something we have no comprehension of.
It's the Sky (Sun, Moon, Stars, Clouds, Rain, Weather) and the Ocean and the Ground, the Brain and the Heart and their reaction to plants. And other life on Earth.
You have probably heard of Birth stones, each month is related to a Gem and a Constellation. Then each Planet is related to a metal. This may seem pointless to someone today, but in the past it was extremely helpful in the creation of Metal Alloys, which then let us discover Steel. They would mix different Metals together to in alignment with Planetary correlation, and created Alloys. A lot of people thought they could use this to turn other metals in to Gold, but wjat they did was create things like White Gold and Sterling Silver. The Planets are also where we get our days of the week. This is known as "The Ogdoad" and it has been around since Ancient Egypt. Months come from the Moon calendar, and each "Moonth" has about 1 full moon Cycle. Some people like to make the claim "The Planets are named after Gods, the Gods are not named for the Planets" and that would make a lot of sense if each culture discovered the Planets on their own, but we know that the Egyptians created the Ogdoad, passed it down to the Greeks, then the Greeks passed their Gods to the Romans, then the Romans passed it to the Christian Church where the Planets/Heavenly Bodies are called the "7 Heavens". Venus is also known as "The Morning Star" because it can be seen in the Morning and Evening, a Venus year is 584 days.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_calendar
Saturn = Saturday
Sun = Sunday
Moon = Monday
Mars = Tuesday
Mercury = Wednesday
Jupiter = Thursday
Venus = Friday
Venus =
Mars =
Sun = Gold
Moon = Silver
Mercury = Mercury
Venus = Copper
Mars = Iron
Jupiter = Tin
Saturn = Lead
Then, there are the Constellations. Most people think that they are random, as if someone decided "That one looks like a Fish and that one looks like a Bull, let's worship them" that is not what happened. The Earth goes around the Sun, as we all know, and as the Earth goes around the Sun the Sun actually seems to move across the Horizon and it passes through those Constellations. Every day the Sun comes up in a slightly different spot than the day before, and in 365 days it goes back to the original spot. This is how Egyptians and Mayans had such great Calendars, they just made a wall to act as a fake Horizon for the Sun, then they would mark a line on the wall where the Sun rose, and at the end of the year they had 365 marks.
Aries, the Ram=April=Amethyst
Taurus, the Bull=May=Agate
Gemini, the Twins=June=Beryl
Cancer, the Crab=July=Emerald
Leo, the Lion=August=Ruby
Virgo, the Virgin=September=Jasper
Libra, the Balance=October=Diamond
Scorpio, the Scorpion=November=Topaz
Sagittarius, the Archer=December=Carbuncle
Capricorn, the Goat=January=Onyx Chalcedony
Aquarius, the Waterbearer=February=Sapphire
Pisces, the Fishes=March =Chrysolite
This brings us to the Holidays, and Plants. Plants help show us what seasons are coming by changing colors (Winter brings Red Colors out, Spring brings all the others), and people used to and still do plant their crops based on the planets. If you get a "Old Farmer's Almanac" for 2015, you will see planting cycles that go with the Planets, this is also where Holidays come from. The Constellations are also important to some Holidays, for example, Easter comes from the Constellation Taurus. It is covered for 3 days by the Sun, the on the 3rd day you can see it again and then Spring starts. Easter was always a Holiday, it was decided Jesus died that day much later.