Hey Atheists, Wanna Be De-Baptized?

[Marie-Therese]

This is one of those don't know whether to laugh or cry stories. I think I tend toward
[url="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/07/17/atheists-reportedly-using-hair-dryers-baptize/?test=latestnews"]Atheists 'de-baptize' themselves with hair dryer[/url]

[quote]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.
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[Vincent Vega]

Jokes on you, it's indelible.

[MIKolbe]

clearly they possess superior intellect and reason.

[Marie-Therese]

I thought this

[quote]blast of hot air [/quote]

pretty well hit the mark.

[Hassan]

I find his claim to have been born an atheist interesting. In some strata of the 'new-atheist' movement I've noticed a religious air about things. I heard one of them angerly accuse a former atheist of having never 'truely' been an atheist on the grounds that once one truly becomes an atheist they are sufficiently enlightened that they would never revert. It's almost like a born again movement.

[Marie-Therese]

[quote name='Hassan' date='17 July 2010 - 10:45 PM' timestamp='1279421135' post='2144180']
I find his claim to have been born an atheist interesting. In some strata of the 'new-atheist' movement I've noticed a religious air about things. I heard one of them angerly accuse a former atheist of having never 'truely' been an atheist on the grounds that once one truly becomes an atheist they are sufficiently enlightened that they would never revert. It's almost like a born again movement.
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That circular reason could only have come from the hot blast of 'Reason and Truth' brought to you by Clairol.

[Sternhauser]

Atheists are very religious, indeed.

~Sternhauser

[MissScripture]

[quote name='Marie-Therese' date='17 July 2010 - 10:36 PM' timestamp='1279420605' post='2144173']
This is one of those don't know whether to laugh or cry stories. I think I tend toward
[url="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/07/17/atheists-reportedly-using-hair-dryers-baptize/?test=latestnews"]Atheists 'de-baptize' themselves with hair dryer[/url]
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I watched that last night. It struck me sad at how angry they all seemed...if that's "enlightenment" I'm happy with blissful ignorance.

[IcePrincessKRS]

You're unbaptizing yourself every time you blow dry your hair! Stop the madness!

[Vincent Vega]

[size="7"]CONAIR IS THE[u] DEVIL[/u]![/size]

[Marie-Therese]

[img]http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq188/peytyb/atheismdefinition.jpg[/img]

[Brother Adam]

Weird. I noticed the anger and the religious nature as well. This stuff about not having the choice to be baptized is so asinine.

[jiyoung]

If the atheists are right, and there is no God, then there's also no need for a "de-baptizing" because all their parents or whomever did was splash water on them in solemn ceremony--it would have no real effect. So I don't see why something like this is necessary, if what THEY hold to be true is correct. Brilliant move, kids.

[MissScripture]

[quote name='jiyoung' date='18 July 2010 - 12:00 AM' timestamp='1279425632' post='2144233']
If the atheists are right, and there is no God, then there's also no need for a "de-baptizing" because all their parents or whomever did was splash water on them in solemn ceremony--it would have no real effect. So I don't see why something like this is necessary, if what THEY hold to be true is correct. Brilliant move, kids.
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They are doing it to mock the religious. That's what they were saying last night on the show --they have the right to mock the religious, so they will.

One girl was saying that a lot of people would say that it looks religious, but the difference is that they do it for fun.

[Fidei Defensor]

[quote name='USAirwaysIHS' date='17 July 2010 - 08:38 PM' timestamp='1279420738' post='2144175']
Jokes on you, it's indelible.
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Jokes on [i]you[/i], it's a magical hairdryer!