by James Hoffman
The London National Secular Society (NSS) has gained hundreds of thousands of followers in their effort to establish a way to de-baptize former Christstians. Make no mistake, the efforts of the NSS are not to diminish the number Christains, but to provide an official statement for those who were baptized too young to have developed their own personal religious beliefs that may be different from Christianity.
Likewese, they are many followers in Argentine. Ariel Ballino, a compaigner of this idea in Argentine and former Christian, explains why - apart from baptism interferring with any changed religious - individuals seek the need for a de-baptism. "The church counts all those who have been baptized as Catholics and lobbies for legislation based on that number, so we're trying to convey the importance of people expressing that they no longer belong to the church." This is significant in allowing baptized idividuals labeled as Christian to have the choice on conflicts between liberal values and the Roman Catholic Church on issues such as gay rights and abortion. Thus, the de-baptism movement has made a stride on strenghthen the seperation between church and state.
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