According to the Times an atheist wants to be the first person in Britain to be de-baptised, claiming that he wasn't consulted at his baptism in 1953 and does not believe in God. He has obtained a "debaptism certificate" from the National Secular Society and has paid £60 to record it in the London Gazette.
All this does is demonstrate to the world that he does really believe in God but wants to make a point of rebelling. If he really did not believe in God his baptism would be meaningless and there would be no point in trying to cancel it out .... it would just have been a load of "hocus pocus". This man obviously believes his baptism does have some power and that would only be true if there was a God behind it.
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Why is it "meaningless" if you don't believe in it?
Did anti-fascists think Nazism was "meaningless", or did they think it was something that required their attention?
Not that I'm saying that baptism is like Nazism, by the way.
Might not atheists want the Church to recognise officially that they have left?
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