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I really find it strange that someone wants to denounce baptism...if you don't believe in God you don't believe in Baptism...so why bother denouncing it?
I don't practice or belong to an organized religion but I am not an atheist either...after many years of careful contemplation...I have found my true beliefs....and though I too was baptized....and don't practice a religion and in fact...have serious problems with it...I find no real need to denounce my baptism because it's meaningless to me now anyway....why take something that supposedly has no meaning to you and give it meaning?
I really find it strange that someone wants to denounce baptism...if you don't believe in God you don't believe in Baptism...so why bother denouncing it?
I don't practice or belong to an organized religion but I am not an atheist either...after many years of careful contemplation...I have found my true beliefs....and though I too was baptized....and don't practice a religion and in fact...have serious problems with it...I find no real need to denounce my baptism because it's meaningless to me now anyway....why take something that supposedly has no meaning to you and give it meaning?
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It's more a statement against the indoctrination of children, than an act that's meaningful in itself.
Someone's making a good profit from rejection of the good prophet.
You honestly can't think of any reasons why someone might be angry at Christianity?
I don't get the de-baptism thing either but I can understand bad feeling towards a religion that might have been forced on someone.
More money than sense.
Er, no. That would be being angry at your parents for doing this, and not the actual Religion itself. Once you start focusing all your anger at the Religion, this then becomes an obsession which causes you to get angry because people aren't turning away from the Religion you despise.
everyone has faith in many things. not everyone realises it however.
Having said that, it has produced new nice works of art, buildings and writings.
I am angry at religion, It winds me up that they are legally allowed to indoctrinate my children while they are at school.
It's never good when you have to explain to your child that their teachers are either dumb or liars.
I have the same problem when my children are taught evolution.
That was a joke right?
Hi.:) Quakerism sprang from Christianity but welcomes diversity and has always had female equality. There are also active (in both senses) Gay and Lesbian Groups.
Jocelyn Bell, the esteemed scientist, is a Quaker, for a modern day example. And Fry, Rowntree and other Quaker families were big in chocolate. And breweries.
Not that I'm trying to convert anyone of course. They don't do that either.
But is that a statement that they can prove to someone who does not share it? No it is a leap of faith, a deep belief that individual rights operate not only in the political sphere but also in the moral. There is no empirical proof for such a position and so the doubts (of moral absolutes) is a leap!
I'm in the same boat. I was baptized as a baby by my atheist parents (well.. not by them, you know what I mean) to keep my catholic grandparents happy. As it meant nothing to my parents, and it made grandparents happy, why not? Nothing lost, something gained.
If you are a nazi, please replace the word nazi with an organisation you wouldn't like tho be a member of so my point will work.
Odd; I don't think I have ever heard anyone give that as their main reason for not being a Christian. On the other hand I have heard a lot of people complaining and even leaving Christian Churches because those Churches have changed their views on moral issues.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
I love that! I think I chose nazis as no one would come out and start defending them... and I watched Dead Snow the other day so I have nazis on my brain.
you have heard of someone(s) leaving a church because it "changed their views on moral issues"?
how did "it" manage to do that?
Unless you are born to atheist parents I would assume you started life with some form of religious belief ? So I can see why renouncing it would make you feel better but as I came to the conclusion religion was rubbish I can't get up much enthusiasm to renounce my christening as it sort of gives it legitimacy and makes it more important in my life than it really is.
I don't need to fight them either, if people wish to believe then I leave them alone and respect their decision. My husband is a committed Christian we respect each others views.
once you realise that there are many equally intelligent and good people in the world who hold different beliefs to you and that you will not be able to convince them otherwise, then it is arrogant for you to try and convert them or hold your view to be the superior truth.
Well two reasons, I had no choice in the matter as a child even to atheist parents, and more importantly to stop the church from counting me in their official statistics even though I have never been in a church outside of a wedding!