2007-07-09 17:56:18 · 17 answers · asked by Just! Some? *Dude* 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Perhaps the question should have been phrased, "What percent of christians are baptised/christened/etc...without their consent?".
2007-07-10 05:08:42 · update #1
Iunno, Probably roughly 95-100%...
I don't ever recall a baby or a child ever willingly dunking their faces in a tub of water thousands of other people dunked their heads in...
2007-07-09 18:01:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
Baptism? You have a problem. Different churches have different definitions of this term. The thing done for babies, in the catholic church, is called baptism. This ceremony is supposed to make them 'Christians'. This is 'confirmed' at 'confirmation' when the young person decides for them selves that he/she wants to be Christian.
In other churches, this ceremony may be called Christening or Dedication. In these ceremonies, the parents promise to bring their children up as Christians.
In many churches, baptism is the ceremony where the person has decided for themselves that they are a Christian and are baptised to confirm this and show that their "old person" has died and a "new person" has been born. In these churches it is almost impossible to be baptised without your consent.
As it is babies that are 'baptised' in some churches, in THESE churches everyone baptised would be done without their consent.
2007-07-10 01:02:50 · answer #2 · answered by jemhasb 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It would be impossible to know that but I would say a good percent. But the also brings up the question of using the name "christians" because are they? If someone get baptised without consent they're usally in a non-christian church, like Roman Catholic or Lutherun, who practice infant baptism.
2007-07-10 01:00:49 · answer #3 · answered by yaabro 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Exactly zero percent. Baptism is an act of faith on the part of the one being baptised. Any forceful dunking of infants/children/adults is simply giving someone a bath.
2007-07-10 01:13:22 · answer #4 · answered by teran_realtor 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You can be Christianed without your consent.....that's when your parents dedicate you back to Jesus Christ the savior and vow to raise you to know him and his word.
And you can't be babtised with out your consent....most churches now adays won't babtise children under the age of 8.
2007-07-10 01:18:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How Can Anyone Be Baptised without His / Her Consent
2007-07-10 01:03:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
zero, you cannot baptize without
submission and consent! Catholicism
is another story, they can do this to
babies obviously without consent but
it's not called baptismal. It's called
Christening
2007-07-10 01:05:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It only means something if you believe it.
Otherwise, someone just dribbled some water on you without your consent.
2007-07-10 01:07:18 · answer #8 · answered by spookyjimjams 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Mormon children are baptized at 8. They don't have a clue what they are getting into. They just do it because that's what they are "told" to do.
2007-07-10 01:08:29 · answer #9 · answered by Amy 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Who cares??? If you don't believe in God or believe in the Church that might have baptized you as an infant, then you don't believe in it and it doesn't matter what they did. You don't believe it and it doesn't matter. Move on. Get over it.
2007-07-10 01:08:37 · answer #10 · answered by rndyh77 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋