Unable to make a positive case for their positions and continuing to demonstrated their inability to base their atheism on anything but opposition to God (almost exclusively the one of the Bible) and religion (almost exclusively Christianity) atheists worldwide; from the UK, Italy, Argentina and the USA are de-baptizing.1
The latest publicity stunt stars the National Secular Society who are making de-baptism certificates available, for, of course, a price. They have made a few thousand pounds already as announced by the National Secular Society president Terry Sanderson.
One de-baptist, whom I am tempted to refer to as an extremist militant atheist but whose sentiments are becoming frighteningly mainstream, referred to infant baptism as, you guessed it, “a form of child abuse.”Let us consider various forms of child abuse; there’s rape, torture, beatings, burnings, pedophilia, incest, psychological abuse and now-getting a little wet.
How terribly saddening to imagine the malice that must choke the heart, mind, and soul of a person who comes to such conclusions.
I personally do not see infant baptism as a biblical doctrine. In fact, the Bible proposes the exact opposite concept which is nicely encapsulated in this text, “many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized” (Acts 18:8). They exercised the cognitive ability of hearing/listening, the comprehended the message and believed it and only where they baptized. I am also not a fan of various Roman Catholic doctrines.
The extremist militant de-baptists fail to note that in infant baptism the godparent speaks for the infant by proxy and then, later on in life, the person who was baptized as an infant makes a conscience decision as to whether or not they will go through Confirmation whereby they choose to follow the faith.
Likewise, a Jew is born a Jew but then, later on in life, the born Jew makes a conscience decision as to whether or not they will go through a Bar/Bat Mitzvah whereby they choose to follow the faith.
Moreover, I do not know how iconoclastic or machismo spiked rebellious these de-baptists think themselves to be but they are about a millennia and a half behind Protestants who have long requested to be removed from Roman Catholic tallies.
Do not worry de-baptists, you were never baptized: 1st Peter 3:21 states that baptism is “not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.”
But if you think that baptism is merely getting a little wet I have conceived of a product which I will be willing to sell for dollars, pounds, pesos, shekels, or what have you:
