{"id":3327,"date":"2009-03-19T16:46:56","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T21:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=3327"},"modified":"2009-03-19T16:46:56","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T21:46:56","slug":"an-atheist-wants-to-be-de-baptised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/an-atheist-wants-to-be-de-baptised\/","title":{"rendered":"An atheist wants to be de-baptised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/religion\/5011270\/Atheist-nurse-tries-to-get-himself-de-baptised-from-Church-of-England.html\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> a convincing argument against infant baptism?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>An atheist is trying to get himself &#8220;de-baptised&#8221; from the Church of England because he believes he was accepted into the religion without his consent.<\/strong><br \/>\nJohn Hunt, a nurse, is one of a growing number of people around the world who want their former involvement with faith groups to be struck from official records.<\/p>\n<p>Now 56, he was baptised at the parish church of St Jude with St Aidan in Thornton Heath, south London, when he was just a baby.<\/p>\n<p>But as a schoolboy he decided he did not believe in God and stopped going to Sunday school aged 11.<\/p>\n<p>More recently he asked Southwark diocese to remove his name from the baptismal roll, because he believes he was too young to agree to the ceremony taking place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is one thing to be removed from a church&#8217;s baptismal records, but how does one become de-baptised in the spiritual sense? Join the Anglican Church of Canada, perhaps.<\/p>\n<p>If this catches on in Judaism, it will open up a new industry in re-attachment surgery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is this a convincing argument against infant baptism? An atheist is trying to get himself &#8220;de-baptised&#8221; from the Church of England because he believes he was accepted into the religion without his consent. John Hunt, a nurse, is one of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/an-atheist-wants-to-be-de-baptised\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[2080],"class_list":["post-3327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","tag-christianity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}