It should be done in the delivery room, so that America can be a Christian Nation, once again. At least that's what my Pastor told us. Do yall agree?
2007-03-05 07:23:13 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The most unfortunate thing about religion is that it causes a tendency to rely on and accept rituals in place of actual substance. A baptism performed on a being who isn't choosing it is meaningless. It wouldn't actually make them Christian, now would it. Do you think God would be fooled by it? It's called cooking the books and it's illegal.
2007-03-05 07:31:17 · answer #1 · answered by Nowpower 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I disagree with the fact that "all kids should be baptized after being born".. This is not because of the Christianity factor, because I am in fact a Christian. The reason I disagree with this is as follows:
You should not be baptized before you're old enough to understand the meaning of baptism. The whole reason you get baptized is because you are telling the world that you accepted Christ as your Lord and Savior, you believe He died for your sins and rose again.
How can you believe all that the instant your born?... Again, I say.. You should not be baptized until you're old enough to understand the significance of it and what it means.
2007-03-05 15:42:05 · answer #2 · answered by Miranda 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dripping water on an infant won't make it a Christian, nor will dunking it in a water fountain. Your pastor should know better. Besides, this isn't a Christian nation, nor was it ever. It was founded upon concepts of liberty, which include freedom of religion. It's not the hospital's, midwife's, or anyone else's right or duty to perform a religious ritual upon a baby without the consent of its parents or guardian.
2007-03-05 15:31:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Does that include the children of Jews, Muslims, atheists, Wiccans, Native Americans, and pagans? I really don't think that would work too well. Although, it would be a great way to foment religious civil war, and then we could learn what it was like to live in Europe during the 14th century. Nice historical idea. Your pastor needs therapy, I think.
2007-03-05 15:34:25 · answer #4 · answered by link955 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Your pastor doesn't know the Scriptures. Baptism does not bring about salvation, nor make one a Christian. God calls, chooses and elects those for salvation, we have nothing to do with it. Baptism is an outward sign of an inward change. Salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone. Pouring water on a baby will not make them a Christian, just wet and cranky.
2007-03-05 15:31:29 · answer #5 · answered by BrotherMichael 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
No!!!! Baptism, as taught by the scriptures, was believers baptism. That means that you weren't baptized until you understood the gospel and believed it. Since children are not capable of making that decision until the reach a certain age, then infant baptism is against what the Bible teaches. Infant baptism is a Catholic Church teaching that some Protestant churches kept after the Reformation, but it is not scriptural.
2007-03-05 15:29:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Your pastor is full of it. Baptism is a useless ritual; it will not turn anyone into a Christian, or away from it. America was never a Christian nation, as you would know if you studied Jefferson.
2007-03-05 15:29:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
I do not believe a person needs to be baptized at all. I especially do not believe it should be done to children when they don't have a say in the procedure. I made a stand, I walked out in the middle of my ceremony. I never have been baptized and I'm certainly no worse off.
2007-03-05 15:35:36 · answer #8 · answered by genaddt 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
My children will be Jewish. You can bathe them all you want, it won't change their religion. Go tell that to your pastor.
Baptising an infant who has no understanding of what you are doing won't make them a Xtian anymore than baptising your dog will make the dog Xtian. I don't believe there is a pastor so ignorant that he thinks that suggestion will turn America into a Xtian nation. Those children will be raised by their parents - and if the parents don't raise 'em Xtian, they just ain't a-gonna be Xtian. (that's read in Hitlery Clinton's new accent, son)
2007-03-05 15:33:24 · answer #9 · answered by mourning my dad 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Christian totalitarianism? I can think of few things worse.
Why just America? Does your pastor not care about the souls of everyone else in the world?
2007-03-05 15:28:29 · answer #10 · answered by Dharma Nature 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋