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Is it possible to get unbaptised?

crazy cabbage · 2012-07-16 20:17:08

Is it possible to get unbaptised? Unconfirmed? UnCommunised (is that even a word). I was baptised as a child. I dont remember consenting to that. I dont want anything to do with the church. I am a very spirtual person but in my own way. So is it possible to get unbaptised?

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#52 19-07-2012 8:15pm

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Its not that simple to just 'forget'. You see, in effect, rightly or wrongly we have all been brainwashed from the earliest possible age to believe in the catholic church and its teachings. Growing up, it was as important in our development as learning to walk, talk and learning the alphabet. remember all those stories about doubting Thomas and to feel sorry for non believers? effectively we are all so far gone into this thing that even if we declared ourselves atheists we would still feel a certain 'guilt' or 'doubt' underlying so deeply ingrained in our subconscious that we will never fully be able to get rid of. Perhaps hypnotherapy may work i dunno.

That is a load of crap. Cultural hegemony does not include just schooling - it includes the newspapers, TV, movies, books available in the a country etc. The Catholic Church controls none of that. It's supposed control of the schools is minimal too - at 36 I am 20 years from mid-secondary school and I was taught by one religious Christian Brother and he taught science and evolution.

I doubt the situation has gotten more radical.

Quite, the reverse in fact. The English speaking world is going through one of its sporadic episodes of anti-Catholicism, and the anti-Catholics in Ireland are part of that trend. Understand a different language, or two, and you get a different view of the world.

And, no I am not a believer. But lets be clear, if Catholicism were as hegemonic as the group thinkers who hate it claim, the group thinkers would be Catholic.

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