More than 100,000 Britons have recently downloaded "certificates of de-baptism" from the Internet to renounce their Christian faith.
The initiative launched by a group called the National Secular Society (NSS) follows atheist campaigns here and elsewhere, including a London bus poster which triggered protests by proclaiming "There's probably no God.""We now produce a certificate on parchment and we have sold 1,500 units at three pounds (4.35 dollars, 3.20 euros) a pop," said NSS president Terry Sanderson, 58.
If the Baptism is meaningless to them, why are they stupid enough to shell out money for a piece of paper that is even less? Methinks these secular or atheistic societies work more at attacking Christianity than espousing their own views.
You have to admire the resolve of their "faith" - "there's probably no God." Whoa, takin' a risk there, cuz . . .
Sanderson meanwhile remains resolute. "The fact that people are willing to pay for the parchments shows how seriously they are taking them," he said.
Or simple-minded. Hey, I can say that, I went out and bought a pet rock when I was a kid, too.
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"I went out and bought a pet rock when I was a kid, too."
Me, I didn't have the money, so I went out and trapped a feral rock.
It bit me, so I released it back into the wild where it belonged.
Regarding the "Deity Challenged", many times I think that they are more evangelical than the Evangelicals......
The "probably" was, I gather, insisted upon by the transit company. It wasn't in the originally proposed ad.
That said, if I thought my baptism didn't mean anything, I wouldn't bother buying something to declare it meaningless. I'd just go on with my life.
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