Please explain to be how dunking is defaming. I don't see it as blastpheming at all.
If you want to explain it privately, you can freepmail me.
Yes, if dunking is defaming, then Christ should have punched John the Baptist in the kisser.
Plus the whole Holy Spirit coming down as a dove and God, Himself, saying "This is my Son, with whom I am pleased." (paraphrase).
LOL. Dunk, dribble, whatever.
As long as it is in the name of the father, son, and holy spirit.
In fact, the most touching Baptism I ever saw involved a soldier, 4 other soldier praying, and a flight mechanic from Louisiana with a dirty canteen.
First of all, please understand that I don't blast the Baptists and other low church types unless they blast us Catholic types first.
We believe that there can be one and only one baptism, anything beyond that is just dunking. It's a doctrinal disagreement. Nothing wrong with that. If one wanted to adopt the same hateful mindset of those that would say that gentle John Paul II is going to hell, one could say that additional baptisms mock the sacrament.
Likewise we say that the Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist is the Transubstantiation of the bread and wine into Christ's Own Body and Blood. To have open communion, to send out little cups of grape juice instead of one bread, one cup, to deny the transubstantiation, all could be regarded as heretical behavior.
Again, I don't mind. I find Baptists to be enthusiastic, serious believers, and I think they are much needed members of the Body of Christ. I don't agree with certain individuals when they say the Pope is going to hell any more than I agree with Mel Gibson when he says his wife is going to hell (even though she is a saint) because she is an Episcopalian, as am I.
The point is we are all going to have to hang together now or we are most certainly going to hang separately, figuratively speaking, I hope.