Europeans in the thousands get de-baptized as a revolt against the sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic church.
The de-baptized, “de-baptize” people and then given them a certificate like this one.
Ten years ago a man named Rene Lebouvier asked the local Catholic church to take him off the baptism registrar. When Lebouvier learned of the sex scandals and continued stance on birth control, Rene demanded the church remove him from all records permanently.
Rene stated, “It’s a sort of honesty toward the church because they have a guy on their register who doesn’t believe in God.”
Rene won a court ruling in Normandy which agreed that his name should be permanently deleted from the records.
Lebouvier is not the only one seeking de-baptism. Thousands are following suit, some of them by refusing state church taxes.
“The movement is happening across Europe,” said Anne Morelli, who heads a center studying religion and secularity at the Free University of Brussels. “It was very apparent during 2011 — in the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and Austria. It is obviously related to the scandals of pedophile priests, but it has been going on for some time.”
Although there are no official statistics, experts guess the number de-baptized is in the tens of thousands.
In 2011 it is said that 181,000 people in Germany have left the Catholic church. The number is based on government papers filed by citizens who say they no longer will pay church taxes.
Thousands in Britain have downloaded de-baptism certificates. In Belgium 2000 certificates were requested in 2011.
“It’s not by chance that in Germany, Austria and Belgium that the movement is strongest,” says Belgian researcher Morelli, noting countries that levy church taxes, which France does not. “It’s also a struggle about subsidies the population must pay for a church that doesn’t represent them.”
Here is what the de-baptism certificate says in the photo above:
“I ________ having been subjected to the Rite of Christian Baptism in infancy (before reaching an age of consent), hereby publicly revoke any implications of that Rite and renounce the Church that carried it out. In the name of human reason, I reject all its Creeds and all other such superstition in particular, the perfidious belief that any baby needs to be cleansed by Baptism of alleged ORIGINAL SIN, and the evil power of supposed demons. I wish to be excluded henceforth from enhanced claims of church membership numbers based on past baptismal statistics used, for example, for the purpose of securing legislative privilege.”
In the following clip from ABC news, people getting de-baptized get blown with a hair drier to “reverse” the baptism:
Sources: Huffingtonpost.com, VOA
My Comment:
None of this comes of a surprise to me. This is the fruit of infant baptism.
Babies do not have faith. Babies do not choose to proclaim their faith in Jesus publicy. Babies do not choose to follow Jesus. This fact has brought millions of false “Christians” into the world because of infant baptism.
The Catholic Church, and several Protestant churches sprinkle water over babies heads and declare them saved Christians. Here a few of those “Christians:” Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Lady Gaga and the singer Madonna.
In the middle ages, infant baptism was a registry. If you did not get baptized, you were kicked out of the country. What a mockery of baptism. Imagine the millions of people having their babies baptized as to not get expelled from the country. Then if you didn’t believe what the church taught, you were burnt at the stake.
The Catholic Church and all churches that promote infant baptism now have thousands running to have it reversed. They don’t want to be associated with a church that abuses children and covers up the crimes.
If this isn’t blatant proof that infant baptism does not make you a Christian, then I don’t know what is.
Acts 8:34-40
34The eunuch answered Philip and said, “Please tell me, of whom does the prophet say this? Of himself or of someone else?” 35Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture he preached Jesus to him. 36As they went along the road they came to some water; and the eunuch said, “Look! Water! What prevents me from being baptized?” 37[And Philip said, “If you believe with all your heart, you may.” And he answered and said, “I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.”] 38And he ordered the chariot to stop; and they both went down into the water, Philip as well as the eunuch, and he baptized him. 39When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away; and the eunuch no longer saw him, but went on his way rejoicing. 40But Philip found himself at Azotus, and as he passed through he kept preaching the gospel to all the cities until he came to Caesarea.
Written by Sue
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This is very interesting Sue. Thanks for posting!
Happy saturday!
Hi Dawn!
Seems like an awful waste of time and effort. Does one really have to go through all of this to renounce his beliefs?
I was baptized as a Mormon when I was 18. I became a Christian when I was 22. I never “de-baptized” but I did have a Christian baptism – full dunking in a slow river! And I never bothered to write to the Mormons to take me off their registers. God knows where my heart is!
Glenn,
I have read of Catholics that left the church and asked the bishop to remove their name from the church. I can understand them. They don’t even like the idea of the church having their name on file.
Ruth,
Asking to have one’s name removed is, I’m assuming, a fairly simple thing for Roman Catholics. I didn’t even know it was something I could do until decades later, and the process was onerous – as described to me at the time – so I didn’t bother. But actually going through a “de-baptizing” ceremony was what I was pointing out as being, in my opinion, a was of time and effort. Asking for name removal in one thing – going through ceremonies is another. I just think they are totally ridiculous.
Identity-crisis,no matters what happens in infancy;today’s behavior and following His/God’s will is what matters.
People who have been baptized rightly also live a immoral life and adverse to The Ten Commandments……………
Live right, today. The true christian way.
Hi Ronnie. Good point.