How many times have you been Baptised? (if at all)

[LadyEmeraude]

I was baptized once as an infant in
The Lutheran Church.

 

[TeePee]

I was never baptized. If man wants to condemn me, they can but what I say, do, and believe is between me and God. If I'm going about it the wrong way, God will be the one to condemn me, not man.

 

[George1959]

I was baptized a Roman Catholic but left church at age 25.

I don't like the practice of baptizing infants. In my opinion people should do it if they are old enough for the act and want it.

For this reason the Baptists who baptize teenagers are better in my opinion.

But I don't think that it makes a difference at all regarding the realm of heaven if someone is baptized or not.

 

[-Oy-]

When I was born both parents were Methodists. They desided that baptism or not should be my choice when i was old enough to understand and make my mind up. I never got dunked or whatever. As a logical adult Humanist I'm happy with that. If they HAD got me dunked or whatever it wouldn't upset me -as to me it has no meaning anyway. As an aside they sent me to "Sunday School" when I was 8 - but after a few weeks they were asked not to take me back because I kept asking "unhelpful questions." My only memory of that is being told that I'd asked a question, was given the answer from the Bible and that was that.

 

[GAlady]

Once….at Northside Baptist Church in Georgia. I was 13 years old. I have remained a Baptist my whole 79 years.

 

[TeePee]

I was baptized a Roman Catholic but left church at age 25.

I don't like the practice of baptizing infants. In my opinion people should do it if they are old enough for the act and want it.

For this reason the Baptists who baptize teenagers are better in my opinion.

But I don't think that it makes a difference at all regarding the realm of heaven if someone is baptized or not.

I hope not.

 

[Born_To_Lose]

Just once.

 

[OneEyedDiva]

I'm a little confused...aren't Catholics considered Christians? I didn't realize that it would be necessary to be baptized a second time....but I guess if one changed to Methodist, or some other denomination, it would be. I was baptized in the church once as an infant. Since I am now Muslim, won't be getting baptized again.

 

[C50]

I'm a little confused...aren't Catholics considered Christians?

Some Christian faiths consider the Catholic religion to be a false religion, something to do with the path into heaven. Christians believe the only path to heaven is by surrendering yourself to Jesus Christ, nothing else matters. Catholics believe you need to confess your sins to God and do good works to get to heaven.

I just had this conversation last week with a Christian friend of mine, I kind of paraphrased what he said because after a minute all I heard was blah, blah, blah.

 

[Teacher Terry]

I was raised Lutheran so they always baptized the babies. I had to go to Sunday school and then from grade 7 through nine once a week two hours of confirmation classes and then you finally get confirmed. I absolutely hated those confirmation classes after being in school all day and then spending another two hours there.

I wasn’t going to do any of that to my kids, but it was very upsetting to my grandma and my mom that my first child was not baptized so I had him baptized at two years old. The next two kids I just got baptized as babies only because of my mom and grandma. however, I drew the line at sending them to Sunday school or confirmation classes as I remembered how much I hated all of that.

As an aside, the Catholic Church does recognize Lutheran baptisms. When my son married a Catholic, he had to turn Catholic so they could get married in the Catholic Church. Since he was able to provide proof of his baptism, he did not have to redo that.

Actually, Lutheran’s and Catholics are very similar, and Martin Luther broke away from the Catholics and founded the Lutheran religion just getting rid of the parts of the Catholic religion that he didn’t like. To this day if I am in either a Catholic or Lutheran Church much of the rote items that you say are very similar.

 

[Capt Lightning]

My parents were strict Presbyterian / Church of Scotland people, so I was christened as an infant. Mrs. L's parents were also Presbyterians, but were more relaxed about it. At least we never had things like 'God parents', 'confirmation' or communion which seemed to be too 'papist' for many. On that point, about the worst crime that one could commit would be to marry a Catholic and converting to Catholicism was akin to selling one's soul to the Devil. I've known of people being disowned from families because of it.

Early on, I rejected religion and wondered if I could be 'un christened', but that would be silly. After all it was no more than an announcement of my given names.

Roll on 25 years and the birth of our son. Not surprising our parents wanted to know about a christening, and were somewhat disapproving when we said that there wouldn't be one. My mother, typical of her attitude, was all 'oh wouldn't t be nice for us dress up and go to church etc etc'. I insisted that how we brought up our children would be our choice. With the birth of our daughters, the question of christening was never raised.

 

[Trade]

Once, but it didn't take.

 

[C50]

I think babtisiams are religious handcuffs. Every religion wants to keep it's flocks at maximum level, once a person is baptized in a specific faith they tend to remain in that faith, and that carries on to future generations. That's one of the reasons I dislike baptizing infants, without choice they are expected to follow their parents beliefs.

There's over 10,000 recognized religions, I believe everyone should explore a fair number of them before committing their spiritual faith to any of them, or to none of them.