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Permalink Reply by Natalie A Sera on August 22, 2011 at 2:43pm

Lucky me -- since I was never baptized, I don't need any such certificate, LOL!!

But I think it can be deeply symbolic and comforting for those who are uncomfortable with infant baptism.

So get one, and feel good about yourself! :-)

Permalink Reply by Mark G on August 22, 2011 at 7:47pm

I actually had my baptism reversed.

 

My mother had my brother, sister, and I baptised Mormon, although she did allow me to stop attending at 13.  For years I was plagued by fervent (albeit nice) missionaries.  When I was about thirty when I called the Mormon Bishop and asked him to remove me from the church membership records; he explained that the process was very "serious" and involved having my baptism reversed. 

 

Sure, the baptism was silly, but having it reversed was just awesome.  I even received a "damnation" letter (my term, of course). 

 

Mormon baptise the dead, however, so if my brother outlives me I'm sure he'll have me re-baptised.  :)

Permalink Reply by Timothy Strange on September 7, 2011 at 2:16pm

Id be interested in the contents of the damnation letter unless it is too personal.

Permalink Reply by Maria Rodriguez on September 9, 2011 at 11:06am

I didn't know about the Mormon's belief/practice of baptizing the dead. It's interesting how every religion have reinvented their own set of beliefs.

Permalink Reply by Angela Olson on September 17, 2011 at 12:38pm

That's so great to know that you can actually contact the church and have it reversed! I was baptized in the mormon church at 15, and while I knew of debaptizing, I didn't know the church had a formal way of doing it!

Permalink Reply by Steph S. on September 17, 2011 at 7:51pm

Yes, I got one awhile back. But I want the FFRF one too. Thanks for the link.

Permalink Reply by Becoming Other on October 1, 2011 at 2:34pm

I had thought once not of a certificate, but a ritual antidote to baptism.  Mostly it would be just a sheet of paper I would pass out.  The party would be asked to renounce any claim to spiritual privelidge or separateness.

 

So actually, it doesn't revoke baptism.  But it neutralizes the more negative aspects of it.

 

It would also say on the sheet of paper that it works just as well for confirmation, ordination, sacramental marriage, and for bar and bas mitzva.

Permalink Reply by Natalie A Sera on October 2, 2011 at 12:27am

I don't think you can neutralize bar or bat mitzvah, because all it means is that the young person is recognized as an adult (that was a reasonable age in ancient times), and when they've started to get horny, I don't think you can turn back the clock, LOL!!!

Permalink Reply by Chris Dodds on November 19, 2011 at 10:27pm

I don't think I need one.  See, what happened was I was acidentally baptised twice and I think the two baptisms cancelled each other out :P

Permalink Reply by Dan Barker on November 28, 2011 at 2:54pm

You can print one out, for free . . . full-color certificate. But you can also get an official signed and sealed De-Baptismal Certificate sent in the mail . . . signed by ME, an ordained minister who "saw the light." You actually get two: one for yourself to frame and another to send to your church to be asked to be removed from the membership rolls.

Permalink Reply by Chris Dodds on November 29, 2011 at 11:33am

I've been trying to get removed from my former church's membership for years.  I actually showed up at one of their services with an atheist t-shirt, and they still keep me there.  What's more, my former church gives out personalized offering envelopes and they keep sending them to me, those poor trees keep dying for nothing!

Permalink Reply by Chris Dodds on November 29, 2011 at 3:23pm

My point is, after everything I've done to try and quit, they still keep me in their membership, even though I haven't even gone near that church in over a decade!  What do I have to do to get it through their heads?!

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