What goes around ....

[watchman]

Finally .... a little good better news ...

Belgium: Amid sex scandals, de-baptism gains favour

Child sex abuse, and other church failings, lead Belgians to formally renounce religion.

BRUSSELS, Belgium — Faced with ever-more harrowing revelations of child sex abuse by Roman Catholic clergymen, Belgians are turning in record numbers to apostasy — formally breaking with their religion through a process of “de-baptism.”

A poll released in January found 60 percent described themselves as Catholics, compared to 72 percent in 1980 and 68 percent in 2000. The number of practicing Catholics declined from 46 percent in 1980 to 14 percent this year, according to the poll in the daily Le Soir newspaper.

Full article link:
www.globalpost.com/dispatch/benelux/100910/catholic-church-belgium-sexual-abuse-priests

[Mr. Jon Donnis]

Seems a bit silly to me to de-baptise your self as in doing so it admits that the baptism in the first place meant something

[watchman]

Which re-enforces the significance of the de-baptism ... these guys are not ,I suspect ,becoming Atheists but are turning their backs on the criminals of the Catholic Church.

(like the new avatar by the way..)

[Mr. Jon Donnis]

If its done as a publicity stunt then its fine, but if they gonna just jump on another religion then its all a bit silly