Forget the Bath Water, Just Toss the Baby

And some Protestant and evangelical Christians like to criticize Catholic for infant Baptism . . .

Rights activists lashed out Friday at local officials who allowed hundreds of infants to be dropped from the roof of a mosque in western India in the belief that the fall — which ends when the babies are caught in a bedsheet — would ensure good health and prosperity for their families.

The ritual at the Baba Umer Durga, a Muslim shrine, is believed to have been followed for nearly 700 years, and each year hundreds of people, both Hindus and Muslims, take part in the ritual.

You know, I try to embrace multi-culturalism right there along with the next guy. But I have a tough time.

I just hope that before the festivities start, they do a "test drop" with one of the imans at the mosque.