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So I have this irreligious coworker who was going to convert to Mormonism for some reason. It was literally a pure pressure situation where he made the mistake of inviting a couple of their bicycle missionaries inside and then he felt guilty about turning them down for stuff.
He had been talking about his impending baptism for weeks, with all of us really skeptical that he actually understood what he was doing. He was under the impression that he could skirt the rules and continue drinking, smoking, and doing all kinds of things that are expressly forbidden in Mormonism.
So one night we were all joking around about a party he wanted to throw for his baptism, with people still commenting that he shouldn't do it. And I made a passing comment about just having an "unbaptism party".
In my head I wasn't thinking about the true sacrament of baptism that we experience in the Church, I was thinking about the Mormon concept of baptism and it's illegitimacy when I made that comment. Yet I still felt kind of weird about what I said... did I blaspheme in a roundabout way or am I just overthinking this?
He had been talking about his impending baptism for weeks, with all of us really skeptical that he actually understood what he was doing. He was under the impression that he could skirt the rules and continue drinking, smoking, and doing all kinds of things that are expressly forbidden in Mormonism.
So one night we were all joking around about a party he wanted to throw for his baptism, with people still commenting that he shouldn't do it. And I made a passing comment about just having an "unbaptism party".
In my head I wasn't thinking about the true sacrament of baptism that we experience in the Church, I was thinking about the Mormon concept of baptism and it's illegitimacy when I made that comment. Yet I still felt kind of weird about what I said... did I blaspheme in a roundabout way or am I just overthinking this?