Can you be baptised into a religion and not mean it?

[Kid Presentable]

Is getting baptised or whatever in a religion with no intention of doing anything (beyond that mere act) about it a bad thing? Like just doing it for kicks? Not like how George Costanza did, rather just for the experience and a general bit of fucking about. This is also excluding of course our paranoid parents who had us baptised when we were infants, since that hardly came good in my case.

I've often wondered if a person decided to just convince some religious people to let them in, ye I see thine spirite etc etc, and then once baptised did fuck all about it and carried on their own whoring ways. What would that be like? How would it be received? Has anybody here done it? Any articles one could link up for me?

[paul jones]

Is getting baptised or whatever in a religion with no intention of doing anything (beyond that mere act) about it a bad thing? Like just doing it for kicks? Not like how George Costanza did, rather just for the experience and a general bit of fucking about. This is also excluding of course our paranoid parents who had us baptised when we were infants, since that hardly came good in my case.

I've often wondered if a person decided to just convince some religious people to let them in, ye I see thine spirite etc etc, and then once baptised did fuck all about it and carried on their own whoring ways. What would that be like? How would it be received? Has anybody here done it? Any articles one could link up for me?

I dunno but I like your Zippy avatar(y)

[Dorothy Wood]

plenty of whores have been baptised!

I think you can pretty much get baptised whenever you want. I could be wrong. I didn't get baptised until I was 7, at a Lutheran church. might've had to belong to the church though. it's probably more complicated if you want to get baptised Catholic. but I bet Methodists would just let you waltz in whenever.

[ToucanSpam]

In the hypothetical scenario that I have babies with the person I am with today, I would have to get them baptized. Not because I want to or she does, but because it's that important to their family and mine. As an atheist I don't want to belong to a church whatsoever and I would prefer if my children learn about all religions and choose for themselves rather than be indoctrinated into one religion. However, I wouldn't really care if I had to have them baptized for family's sake. To me it's a near-meaningless event.

[b i o n i c]

90% of the catholics i know dont really mean it, but will probably have their kids be catholic and so on

[Kid Presentable]

But like a grown-up walking in one day and asking to be baptised for a laugh.

[camo]

It's religion...who actually adheres to all the seven commandments as a practicing Christian these days???

You can do anything and not mean it.

Just read some of the shit I come up with on here.

[insertnamehere]

i was never baptised so if those medieval christians were right, i'll just spend forever in limbo, which really doesnt sound all that bad. its win-win (y)

[RobMoney$]

But like a grown-up walking in one day and asking to be baptised for a laugh.


Catholics aren't doing anything for free.
You may get your laugh, but you aren't getting a baptism without a "donation".
That way, the last laugh's on you. (y)

[BangkokB]

IIRC Jesus never said anything about the importance of baptism though he was baptised by his cousin John

A church I went to years back made it quite a big deal. You couldn't be baptised unless you stood bf the congregation and professed your commitment to Christ.

Now on the other end of the spectrum: I don't believe that you have to go through any of that song and dance to be a Buddhist. My wife just goes to temples occasionally and has a space designated that litters our happy home w/ idols, incense, Fruits, Water and $ in a basket of sorts. And I can't eat that fruit, drink the water or spend the $

[BangkokB]

LULZ ALERT: Unless I really want booze or smokes

Then there's gunshot to signal the start of that Silent Treatment

[Tzar]

i think you gotta do a bunch of shit for the church in the case of catholics as well as pay. i'm confused about this sort of shit; i was baptised greek orthodox but my folks never sent me to greek church or insisted i do this and that for the church? why did they bother? i think it was to keep my dad's folks happy.

[pshabi]

As an atheist I don't want to belong to a church whatsoever and I would prefer if my children learn about all religions and choose for themselves rather than be indoctrinated into one religion.

This just seems ass-backwards to me. You are an "atheist" so you don't believe in the existence of any god but would want your children to explore religion? I don't get it. If you think your beliefs are correct and true you should raise your children to believe them too.

[pshabi]

But like a grown-up walking in one day and asking to be baptised for a laugh.

If you went in and said, "baptize me for a laugh," they wouldn't do it. I have been in christian church where people have had some sort of moment of realization (actually, most likely just guilt) and have come forward right at the end of the sermon to "accept" Jesus. At times, they have been baptized right on the spot.

[pshabi]

It's religion...who actually adheres to all the seven commandments as a practicing Christian these days???


7? Did I miss something?????

[BangkokB]

Pshabi: You seem to be pretty serious about this whole Baptism thing


Glad that I said Jesus never said anything about it scripturally or If I had I'd imagine you'd be really worked up

[Dorothy Wood]

pshabi's just a crabby little bitch.