Where can I go to get Un-baptized?

Question

I got baptized when I was 8 years old. I don't like it. It still makes me feel creepy sometimes to know I underwent this ritual.

Answer 1

Maybe if you walked backwards through a car wash with a de-frocked priest reading the rite of baptism backwards.

But if a bolt of lightning hits you, I had nothing to do with it. :)

Answer 2

You might try standing on your head in the shower and wash well with a good soap and see if that will wash it off. If that doesn't work I don't have a lot of suggestions as that water they use seems to stick pretty well. However, you can make it known you had nothing to do with it and now want nothing to do with it. You were a child and forced into it by your parents so pronounced yourself as an unwilling participant in a ritual that meant nothing. Many of us had to go through the same thing, but have managed to shrug it off. Try to remember water evaporates and the water that was used on you a long time ago is long gone and for you anything that it meant went with it.

Answer 3

Creepy is the perfect word for it. Get this- Apparently I have been baptized again and again by the Mormon church. They take random Mormons and baptize them in the name of someone. Talk about creepy.

Answer 4

Does the baptismal ritual have personal meaning to you? If not, then you shouldn't be bothered by it.

Ask a Wiccan (or whatever you believe now) to perform a cleansing ritual on you. If you don't believe in anything now, make up a ritual to cleanse yourself if it really bothers you that much.

Answer 5

Baptism represents to the world that the one being baptized has by faith, received the death and burial of Christ for their sins and is being resurrected to a new life in Christ where they are given power and authority over Satan, sin, sickness, poverty and spiritual death and separation from God the Father. And the same Holy Spirit that raised Christ up from the dead shall also raise the born again believer up when they die a physical death. But to those who have not the Spirit of Christ when they die, their spirit goes straight to hell for 1000 years and then they will be raised to judgment and never see the kingdom of God but cast into a lake of fire for their refusal to be born again by the Spirit of the living God..If you feel creepy, it doesn't come from God but Satan. Make your choice for God will honor your decision. Jesus and baptism or Satan and eternal death?

Answer 6

I seriously doubt being ducked under the water for a few seconds when you were a child is affecting your life as an athiest. Maybe your feeling guilty for turning your back on God. Sorry, you can't wash Him away.

Answer 7

since baptism is done with water, in order to get un-baptised, you need to dip your head in mud. and if you had one of those total body immersion baptisms, you are going to need a full body mud bath, and you should roll around in it, naked, until you have no clean part of yourself, inside or out.

the rules do permit the mud roll to be done with a concerned naked friend

Answer 8

You can't but if you believe it was only water used in a ritual ceremony you don't believe in then it should have no power over you anymore. It can take a while but I was baptized and I just 'got over it'..... you could also jump into a pool of tequila or create your own unbaptizing ceremony........

Answer 9

You dont have to really. Just tell yourself it went along with what you believed at the time (maybe) and let yourself be free of the guilt.

Answer 10

I think believing in a supernatural imaginary friend is kinda' silly.
but- rituals in life are nice.

Perhaps you can look fondly upon the ritual, passed down from generation to generation- even if you don't believe in all that rubbish that goes with it.

Answer 11

I was baptized in the Mormon church and requested ex-communication papers, but they won't do it. Every time I request it, they give me another Book of Mormon and tell me to read it.

atheist