BY: WC WINDBAG

“When people stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing— they believe in anything.”
–G. K. Chesterton

What could go wrong when people shed ancient truths dogmas for a new and more enlightened… maybe superior way of thinking?

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.

John Hunt, a 58-year-old from London and one of the first to try to be “de-baptised,” held that he was too young to make any decision when he was christened at five months old.

I could hardly disagree with Mr. Hunt regarding making a decision, as I was 3 months old or so when I was Baptized. But is that the point? I mean, most religions that baptize at an early age also have Confirmation or other acceptance of the faith at an age where a decision can be made. So what’s the problem?

Michael Evans, 66, branded baptising children as “a form of child abuse” — and said that when he complained to the church where he was christened he was told to contact the European Court of Human Rights.

Oh… that. I can see how child abuse and having your child baptized is related. Talk about a stretch.

How about a non-stretch, but educated guess: I would believe whole-heartedly that the secular are more likely to believe in man-made, catostrophic global warming than the religious. Re-read the Chesterton quote.

Global Warming Climate Change has its profit Prophet, visions of Armageddon, holy symbols, and a Messiah.

Sounds like a religion to me. When can we start asserting child abuse for the early indoctrination?

UPDATE:

Allahpundit added a BBC video at his post at Hot Air. Thought I would add as well.

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