Atheists call for 'debaptism'

[seashale76]

I asked my mother if I could be unbaptised when I was a child. I was rather affronted to have been incorporated into this nonsense without my approval. As JGL53 said, it's a symbolic gesture.

How nonsensical to want to be unbaptised if you're supposedly making a break with something you consider nonsense.

 

[Fantine]

Isn't that up to God, not man?

 

[JGL53]

How nonsensical to want to be unbaptised if you're supposedly making a break with something you consider nonsense.

Is supernatural religion based in "sense" or "nonsense"? Some, like me, would say the latter. Thus, this guy agrees and apparently figured one must fight fire with fire.

He's entitled to his opinion.

(seashale - if you are ignorant of the basis of supernatural religion as nothing more than nonsense, I will be glad to supply you with some examples demonstative of that fact.)

 

[Silent Bob]

I am baptised an Orthodox Christian. As I later found out people who want to get baptised as OCs have to go through a type of program to learn and adapt, but I got all that when I was young and my alternative form of passing my time was to pick my nose so I feel lucky!

Now anytime I wish to go back to being an Orthodox Christian I can in a jiff. If I want to be accepted into heaven all I have to do is find a priest and confess. Am I the only one who sees this as practical as having two passports? I want to get more! Maybe if I get baptised for every religion out there and before dying do all the purging rituals one after another heaven is 100% certain (take THAT Pascal!) Then again there might not be a heaven and hell so all that is a waste of time.

 

[seashale76]

I am baptised an Orthodox Christian. As I later found out people who want to get baptised as OCs have to go through a type of program to learn and adapt, but I got all that when I was young and my alternative form of passing my time was to pick my nose so I feel lucky!

Now anytime I wish to go back to being an Orthodox Christian I can in a jiff. If I want to be accepted into heaven all I have to do is find a priest and confess. Am I the only one who sees this as practical as having two passports? I want to get more! Maybe if I get baptised for every religion out there and before dying do all the purging rituals one after another heaven is 100% certain (take THAT Pascal!) Then again there might not be a heaven and hell so all that is a waste of time.

You obviously had very little catechesis throughout your time as an Orthodox Christian. Many of the things you say here make it clear you don't know what the Church believes regarding sin, salvation, hell, etc.