De-Baptism
 

Spotted this little news story at Time:

http://www.time.com/time/world/artic...891230,00.html

Kind of a spiritual diploma mill. But my question is:

Does this exorcise that creepy ghost that was put inside you?

Only if you use a hair dryer.

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My (new!) friend and I have angered the fish spirits.
We don't believe in them, therefore we can never exorcise them.

We'll be doomed to odd fishy tastes in random food and drinks forever now.
Then again, we're on the same medication. That might have something to do with it.

I think that ghost takes a lot more work than downloading a piece of paper that says you're free.

I'd tend to agree.

Atheists are believers too. They just believe in a very silly way, to scant benefit. It never appealed to me. I never got worse off than "not particularly religious."

We believe in a silly way? Ok.

:D I found that amusing as well Dana.

Beliefs should not be ranked according to benefit provided.

Some atheists are believers, but the only thing that describes them as a whole is a lack of belief.

AMEN!

Seriously. People who say they believe "just in case" make me laugh most of all. "Just in case" means what? This god guy can't tell the difference between really believing and faking it to reap the everlasting rewards of heaven? :D

Tums will fix it. That or pepto. :D

Trust me on this. I am a spiritual leader.

And why not? Seems to me that's a big part of the whole point.

The atheist ends up believing -- very hard -- in a not-God. :rolleyes: Whoopee she-yit.

As a teenager, I might have gone atheist -- though that never quite happened. As a full adult, and getting older -- no. That isn't me or for me.

What the fuck are you talking about? were you high when you posted this? you're usually at least coherent with a hint of intelligence (albeit misguided)

I'm atheist. I do have a belief. I believe there is no such thing as a divine being/God/afterlife/supernatural anything. How is that a silly way of believing? Silly is more about denying the noodly appendage of FSM. (Ramen).

Chicken is a good word. (even without the addition of "-flavored Ramen Noodles"). It is well applied to people who see the fallacy of religion, but are too superstitious to admit it. know any of them?

Oh, and as to the OP.... what a load of BS. I was christened. So What? The next step was confirmation/Communion. Guess what? I chose not to. I don't go to church. End of Story.

If people really feel they need that, they're in a far worse place regarding their beliefs than a ceremony like that could help them with.

Chill.

Maybe some do it just for the fun?

Political statements aren't for fun. They're political. You wanna have fun, go buy a hula hoop.

I'm very concerned for your well-being, monster. I put in for a virtual on-line confirmation for you, and also arranged for you to receive virtual communion (so virtual you didn't even have to participate).


You'll thank me in the afterlife.

Yes, it was a joke.

Yea but did you get yer certificate to renounce your non-renouncement.

hey, teapot... Fuck Off :D

oh JesusDallas you have saved me!



.....now go back to having virtual sex :p

Can I join your cult?

And you feel -- very hard -- in a god. :rolleyes: Whoopee she-yit.

I feel GREAT personal benefit from not givin a shit about god/heaven/afterlife.
Instead I care about life itself, not some supernatural psycho-babble. So go take you god-fearing miserable self somewhere else, mmkay? Oh I know, since you think the "after-life" will be so great, take yourself there.
Stop polluting my world with your "higher calling." I'm over it.

My, my, my. Looks like I'm hardly the miserable one here, MTpretty.

I'm not going anywhere, and you can't bully me either. So stop playing the fool.

um, what? yes, of course it's a load of bs. I think that's self-evident.

No can do .... I'm virtually impotent.
But it was a very kind thought anyway. Thank you!

one reason among many
 

Because when beliefs are driven by benefits, God tends to start favoring agendas which are peculiarly beneficial to his followers. Uncanny, in fact.

. . . As a reference, I cite all of human history.

:sadsperm:

I hope you had that debaptised, because....



(thanks Bruce for the tip as to how to start that in the right place :thumb: )