Baptism and hypocritacle "atheists"

[Bella Fortuna]

I thought people gave this shit up long ago, I wasn't baptised and I've never been to one.

I don't think it's just atheists - most christians moved away from this too, I thought?

I know lots of people who have been, but same with me - I wasn't and I've never been to one. Just lucky, I guess!

[klr]

I thought people gave this shit up long ago, I wasn't baptised and I've never been to one.

I don't think it's just atheists - most christians moved away from this too, I thought?

I know lots of people who have been, but same with me - I wasn't and I've never been to one. Just lucky, I guess!

At secondary school (your high school), I remember the mild shock in our class when it became known that one of our classmates had never been baptised, or wasn't baptised until he was 12, or something like that.

There were also dark rumours of ... Protestants at the school!

However, I should point out that religion wasn't really taken seriously. It was more a "cultural" thing. If it was an established school run by the Church, it might have been different, but it was a new state school, only a few years old.

[Bella Fortuna]

What a different world! The mind boggles.

[Svartalf]

Dunno, back when I had a gf and we thought it would hold, we were planning a church wedding and baptism of possible kids... for the sakke of our respective families, both old fashioned and strait laced.

[klr]

What a different world! The mind boggles.

Sure weren't we very backward altogether. There was even a moving statues craze in the mid 1980's, not to mention periodic outbreaks of other Marian madness, such as people having direct contact with the BVM herself. It was one way of getting your 15 minutes of fame I suppose.

Dunno, back when I had a gf and we thought it would hold, we were planning a church wedding and baptism of possible kids... for the sakke of our respective families, both old fashioned and strait laced.

"For the sake of the families"

... sorry

[Svartalf]

I thought people gave this shit up long ago, I wasn't baptised and I've never been to one.

I don't think it's just atheists - most christians moved away from this too, I thought?

I suspect the custom runs stronger in Catholic countryes... does CoE even practice infant baptism?

[Svartalf]

If you're not baptized, you're not coming in the door.

I got baptized twice, do I get and extra welcome drink?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The biggest problem with the Baptist ritual for adults is that when they push them underwater, for some damn reason they let them surface again.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

I thought people gave this shit up long ago, I wasn't baptised and I've never been to one.

I don't think it's just atheists - most christians moved away from this too, I thought?

I suspect the custom runs stronger in Catholic countryes... does CoE even practice infant baptism?

Sure it does! I got wetted, so did my brothers, so have several of their kids. It is an essential part of CofE practice.

[klr]

If you're not baptized, you're not coming in the door.

I got baptized twice, do I get and extra welcome drink?

I'm only guessing, but that sort of thing would probably have made you look like Damien from The Omen for some reason. Anything that wasn't quite standard-issue was viewed with deep suspicion.

[Svartalf]

Actually, no. N°1 happened within hours of my birth, because it was in Church bound Québec and they were terrified that I might die without it, N°2 was some 8 or 10 months later, when the parents took me back to France to show me off to the family with full pomp.

[Pappa]

I thought people gave this shit up long ago, I wasn't baptised and I've never been to one.

I don't think it's just atheists - most christians moved away from this too, I thought?

I suspect the custom runs stronger in Catholic countryes... does CoE even practice infant baptism?

Sure it does! I got wetted, so did my brothers, so have several of their kids. It is an essential part of CofE practice.

Same here... I've even got my baptism certificate somewhere. Neither of my parents were religious, nor their parents, but they got me done because "that's what people do, right?".

[HomerJay]

The biggest problem with the Baptist ritual for adults is that when they push them underwater, for some damn reason they let them surface again.

Baptists don't do infant baptism but like a good dunking when they do do it (once the child can understand, about 12, I think).

[klr]

Actually, no. N°1 happened within hours of my birth, because it was in Church bound Québec and they were terrified that I might die without it, N°2 was some 8 or 10 months later, when the parents took me back to France to show me off to the family with full pomp.

Sounds perfectly innocent, but I can imagine the reaction: "You got baptised twice?"

Cue mutterings behind your back

Thankfully, Ireland isn't like that any more. Now, most people would just have a laugh, assuming they took any notice at all.

[Svartalf]

I could make up an excuse like the first priest was drunk and gave me a completely unbearable name, so they got permission from the bishop to do it over again properly...