Someone wants to be de-baptised. Or should that be dis-baptised. Or un-baptized? Can you be un-indoctrinated? Can you remove consent to have been photographed as a baby? How about un-learning your mother tongue? Could you be de-washed? Or un-fed that meat, having decided to become a life-long vegetarian? Can you be dis-educated if you never wanted to know any calculus after all?
I've never been much of a fan of paedo-baptism, but, really, if you want to disavow all that mumbo-jumbo (in the Anglican case, renouncing evil, etc. and making promises, all through the lips of your god-parents/sponsors), why is there more to it than that ? If you believe that baptism is effective ex officio opera, then I suppose it is; if you don't, then surely it isn't?
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Publish in haste...repent at leisure.
Did I really say mumbo-jumbo.
Hm.
de-baptised? now there's something i'd never thought of.
Hi Dan, thanks for dropping by. It's certainly a curious thing...
And the guy got his wish, apparently:
linkDoes that set a precedent, I wonder?
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