{"id":1137,"date":"2014-07-02T14:00:10","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T19:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/?p=1137"},"modified":"2014-06-30T18:34:21","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T23:34:21","slug":"de-baptism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2014\/07\/de-baptism\/","title":{"rendered":"De-baptism matters"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Recently I got my apostasy letter, confirming I am no longer part of the Catholic Church<\/strong>. This is something I had wanted for so long, I felt great about it.<\/p>\n

A few days later, I run into a Friendly Atheist<\/em> post where Hemant Mehta<\/strong>\u00a0asks “Who really cares that you were baptized?<\/a><\/em>” Well, a hell lot of people:<\/p>\n

For starters, me.\u00a0I do not want my name to remain tainted by association with a criminal mafia<\/strong>. (Isn’t that enough a reason?)<\/p>\n

Secondly, the Catholic Church itself<\/strong>. When they’re trying to poison our public policy with their superstition, they will make an argument of the sort: 73% of Colombians are Catholics<\/a>, therefore, marriage equality is a no-no<\/a><\/strong>. Why would I enable the kidnapping of my name to swell their statistics every time they want to ignore secularism?<\/p>\n

Thirdly, any person who cares about human rights and despises what people do with babies when they have no critical thinking skills. Recruiting children is wrong<\/strong>, it’s a form of child abuse.<\/p>\n

Getting out of the Catholic Church is a way of fighting religious privilege<\/strong>. The more people knows about it, the more they will think before subjecting underaged kids to the follies of religion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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