If you are not a believer what does it matter? It is just a bath in your mind set. As long as it physically nor mentally invasive (I doubt babies could be affected emotionally) then who cares. I’d be more concerned about the quality/level of care under obamacare guidelines.
Yep.
I'm pretty sure the Mormons reading the obituaries will get me proxy-baptized after I'm dead.
Doesn't bother me. I already know where I'm going, and no two people splashing around in a basin will affect that.
Not that I'd want it to :)
Well, in the past it sometimes mattered a lot.
Clearly, it matters to these parents. Don't you think it should be their call?
It is just a bath in your mind set. As long as it physically nor mentally invasive (I doubt babies could be affected emotionally) then who cares.
So you wouldn't object to hospital staff performing a non-invasive Muslim purification ceremony for your infant?
For years, the Roman Catholics used forced baptism as a method of kidnapping children.
That’s why it matters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgardo_Mortara
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