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Correct me if I'm wrong, but this appears more like a group of happy people joking around...to a Christian, anyone who criticizes your belief in any way is apparently unhappy or angry...or perhaps the word you were looking for was...evil?
Angry people in general trying to force their opinions on others is a bad thing.
Originally posted by WolfofWar
I think this type of behavior has shown a new sub-group of atheists, a group that has essentially hijacked the name. I call them Anti-theists. Some of the quote in ABCs article ring a tone of anger towards ever even being baptized. An atheist shouldn't care, I know I don't. It seems like this growing group of anti-theists have assimilated into atheists groups and effectively soiled our "good name."
Originally posted by CHA0S
reply to post by slane69
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this appears more like a group of happy people joking around...to a Christian, anyone who criticizes your belief in any way is apparently "unhappy"...or perhaps the word you were looking for was...evil?
Angry people in general trying to force their opinions on others is a bad thing.
Originally posted by Titen-Sxull
reply to post by slane69
No one is being forced to worship Jesus under penalty of death anymore (at least in the USA) and so no one will be forced into atheism, Freedom of Religion and freedom of unbelief are here to stay
Originally posted by LadySkadi
Jokes and Parody? Well, maybe for some... maybe not for others...
Said one woman who travelled from Cincinnati to undergo the de-baptism, "I was baptized Catholic. I don't remember any of it at all." The woman, Cambridge Boxterman, 24, added, "According to my mother I screamed like a banshee, and those are her words, so you can see that even as a young child I didn't want to be baptized. It's not fair. I was born atheist and they were forcing me to become Catholic."
If you don't believe in something, why must it be reversed? Lol
Originally posted by LadySkadi
reply to post by hippomchippo
Yes... note the use of the word "maybe" in my post.
Originally posted by WolfofWar
At the 2010 annual American Atheists Convention, Edwin Kagin wielded a blow-dryer and attempted to preform a mass de-baptism. With the intent to symbolically dry the holy waters of baptism off of them, he applied the holy dryer, named "Reason and Truth" to the foreheads of those at the convention. With a few mock words in Latin, their baptism was reversed.
The ABC article that talks about this story can be found here: An Atheist De-Baptism
Originally posted by LadySkadi
I just have one question: If one is a self-proclaimed Atheist, why would they need to travel to an Atheist convention to have a Baptism that they don't even remember, reversed by a blow-dryer? If they don't believe, than why does that which they don't believe in, need to be reversed?
I'm so confused...
Originally posted by hotbakedtater
I was wondering if anyone who is an atheist would care to explain to me what a lack of belief is?