The athiest's non-ritual ritual...
Found via Pewsitter at http://www.myfoxdc.com/ ;
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 donned 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.
What I've been told is really inspiring about being an athiest is how it frees you from all ritual and dogmatic beliefs. Yep. Got it. Not even in jest, no rituals at all. Uh-huh. Absolutely no belief system to subscribe to. Noted.
3 comments:
Doesn't this refute and contradict their own arguments? If said baptism doesn't mean anything, why the need for such a ceremony?
This is nothing less than blasphemy against the Holy Spirit...
"All sins will be forgiven the sons of men, and whatever blasphemies they utter; but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin". Mark 3:29
The very sad thing is that those who are doing this have no idea the hell that will be awaiting them. I hope they enjoyed that blast of hot air because they may be looking at an eternity of a lot more than hairdryer heat.
As noted on my blog today, the extremist atheist are becoming more and more vile...and they have no idea what it is that awaits them.
What gets me is that they have nothing that they themselves created. It's all a perversion or reaction to Christianity. It's not a religion or belief...it's a vehement non-belief. Which is two sides of the same coin. Which is what CSLewis says in his book
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