Posted on 12/02/2022 6:49:04 PM PST by marshmallow
The Church in Belgium has reported a sharp rise in the number of people asking for their names to be removed from baptismal registers.
The Catholic Church in Belgium reported on Wednesday a sharp rise in the number of people asking for their names to be removed from baptismal registers.
The Church’s latest annual report, published on Nov. 30, said there were 5,237 such requests in 2021, compared to 1,261 in 2020 and 1,800 in 2019.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church says that “baptism seals the Christian with the indelible spiritual mark of his belonging to Christ.” While a person can lapse in the practice of the faith, or even renounce it altogether, it is impossible to reverse the effects of baptism.
Nevertheless, a rising movement in Europe promoting “debaptism” has encouraged Catholics to write to Church authorities asking to be removed from parish baptismal records. The movement is a consortium of several political and philosophical factions among European secularists.
A spokesman for the Belgian bishops’ conference told The Pillar on Dec. 1 that when the Church received a “debaptism” request, “it is noted in the register in the margin that the person has requested to be de-registered.”
“You are not allowed to cross out or delete an entry in an official register,” he explained.
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The Church has committed suicide.
It don’t matter.
After you do it, you still Belgian.
It’s why every knee shall bow, when Christ comes. They will have tried everything, including elimination of the church, and nothing will work.
Where do you go to get debaptised? To Da Church? It sounds like they expect the communists to confiscate church records and to put all Christians in concentration camps. The RATS’ with Holocaust II.
I call BS. What young person would really worry about being unbaptized? Really??
“The Catechism of the Catholic Church says that “baptism seals the Christian with the indelible spiritual mark of his belonging to Christ.” While a person can lapse in the practice of the faith, or even renounce it altogether, it is impossible to reverse the effects of baptism.”
That is not true quite, you actually can reverse the effects of baptism, unlike the effects of mRna gene therapy.
We spilled millions...and millions...and millions of gallons of our blood for *this*? Despicable!
It doesn’t change the fact they were baptized, they just want the written record erased.
So its not really de-babtism, which doesn’t exist.
I’m glad my Dutch ancestors didn’t engage in such nonsense because it makes tracing family history so much harder.
“...because it makes tracing family history so much harder.
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And because they weren’t nuts.
—> After you do it, you still Belgian.
I see what you did
After you do it, you still Belgian.
Ain’t no cure for that.
And because they weren’t nuts.
Lol
True👍
Do the Belgians have a church tax like the Germans do? In order to get out of paying the tax in Germany you have to deregister from your church.
Switzerland had a similar system, you have to let your employer know what church to give your money to or declare you were not affiliated with the Catholic or another recognized church. Some people I worked with did not participate but still let the church tax be sent rather than take their names off the rolls, which apparently had stiff consequences with the church if they ever changed their mind.
I’m so sad to read of this, but I’m not surprised things like this are taking place. The Bible does remind us that folks will fall away in the end of days. The best thing to do is pray for them.
If you dont believe in the Christian Faith anyway, what difference does it make?
> The Church has committed suicide.<
Pretty much. High church officials will wonder what’s wrong with those people. Instead they should be wondering what they themselves did wrong.
Which is one reason why you shouldn't waffle about baptism.
Another is 2 Timothy 2:12.
A few weeks back I attended a Greek festival at the big Orthodox church. When the pastor was giving his tour of the sanctuary, he mentioned that the churches in Greece were all funded by the government, and then gave thanks that his church paid its own bills and was beholden only to Christ.
As bad as it is getting here, at least here those beholden only to Christ are separating themselves both from the heretics and from the government, from Orthodox to LCMS to ARP to Global Methodists and Venture Church Network--and if the successor to Pope Francis is a carbon copy, it wouldn't surprise me if RCs in America split in two as well. There is going to be a witness to Christ here that may be persecuted and martyred, but the gates of hell will not prevail against it.
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