Wielding a blow-dryer, a leading atheist conducted a mass “de-baptism” of fellow non-believers and symbolically dried up the offending waters that were sprinkled on their foreheads as young children.
At the annual American Atheists Convention, one of atheism’s premier provocateurs, Edwin Kagin, faced the crowd and raised high a hairdryer labeled “Reason and Truth.”
Said one woman who travelled from Cincinnati to undergo the de-baptism, “I was baptized Catholic. I dont remember any of it at all.” The woman, Cambridge Boxterman, 24, added, “According to my mother I screamed like a banshee, and those are her words, so you can see that even as a young child I didn’t want to be baptized. It’s not fair. I was born atheist and they were forcing me to become Catholic.”
I’m all about atheists making statements, but this seems just a wee bit silly to me. Almost as silly as a grown man riding a dinosaur.
Maybe South Park was right to predict that there will be warring factions of atheist in the future, because I can tolerate these assholes about as much as I can take Pat Robertson. There both irksome cunts one in the same.
Whatever. Some people need their symbols. I won’t begrudge them that.
I wouldn’t begrudge them that if they would extend the same courtesy to others.
giant blow driers and fake dinosaurs seem pretty harmless in comparison to other things peoples could be doin
so…. is de-baptism some kind of religious ritual?
WHERE ISN’T YOUR GOD NOW?
NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! How dare you disrespect my non belief?!
Naw, its just a mockery. Delicious mockery. Some people do gain emotional satisfaction from severing the ritual ties to a religion. Edwin does this as a joke every now and then.