American atheists lined up to be "de-baptized" in a ritual using a hair dryer, according to a report Friday on U.S. late-night news program "Nightline."
Leading atheist Edwin Kagin blasted his fellow non-believers with the hair dryer to symbolically dry up the holy water sprinkled on their heads in days past. The styling tool was emblazoned with a label reading "Reason and Truth."
Kagin believes parents are wrong to baptize their children before they are able to make their own choices, even slamming some religious eduction as "child abuse." He said the blast of hot air was a way for adults to undo what their parents had done.
"I was baptized Catholic. I don't remember any of it at all," said 24-year-old Cambridge Boxterman. "According to my mother, I screamed like a banshee ... 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."
Kagin doned a monk's robe and said a few mock-Latin phrases before inviting those wishing to be de-baptized to "come forward now and receive the spirit of hot air that taketh away the stigma and taketh away the remnants of the stain of baptismal water."
Ironically, Kagin's own son became a fundamentalist Christian minister after having "a personal revelation in Jesus Christ."
"One wonders where they went wrong," he chuckled to the TV show.
http://www.foxnews.c...dryers-baptize/
U.S. Atheists Reportedly Using Hair Dryers to 'De-Baptize'
Started by Hostile, Jul 18 2010 11:11 AM
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Posted 18 July 2010 - 11:32 AM
Pointless waste of time. I've always thought of atheism as putting one's trust in logic and reason, neither of which require ceremony of this form, and both of which in fact argue against it.
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Posted 18 July 2010 - 11:36 AM
Pretty sure it's meant to be ironiiiiic or something. Pretty harmless (and pointless) either way. But I bet FOX didn't agree!
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Posted 18 July 2010 - 04:14 PM
Guys,doncha think there's some sort of department at FOX which creates fake news?I bet that in every stupid news agency there is such thing.
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Posted 20 July 2010 - 12:33 AM
What about the department at Revora that creates fake news?Guys,doncha think there's some sort of department at FOX which creates fake news?I bet that in every stupid news agency there is such thing.
http://abcnews.go.co...ory?id=11109379
http://www.abovetops...hread594742/pg1
heck with that, check the entire google search.
http://www.google.co...u...q=&gs_rfai=
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