{"id":7613,"date":"2009-04-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-04T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/04\/04\/atheists-de-baptism-popular-in-britain\/"},"modified":"2009-04-04T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-04T12:00:00","slug":"atheists-de-baptism-popular-in-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/04\/04\/atheists-de-baptism-popular-in-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Atheists&#8217; &#8220;De-baptism&#8221; Popular in Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\">RNS<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">LONDON, UK, April 5, 2009: A secular organization in Britain that backs an atheist ad campaign on London&#8217;s buses is now producing &#8220;certificates of de-baptism&#8221; for people wishing to renounce their Christian faith &#8212; and claims it is getting thousands of takers. The National Secular Society says more than 100,000 ex-worshippers have downloaded the de-baptism certificates from its Web site, and that thousands of others have ordered up parchment versions at about $4 a copy.<\/p>\n<p>The NSS Web site (www.secularism.org.uk) advertises the certificates this way: &#8220;Liberate yourself from the Mumbo-Jumbo that liberated you from the Original Sin you never had.&#8221; The British initiative is among the latest in a series of atheist-oriented campaigns in Europe. Italy&#8217;s Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics, for instance, sponsored a nationwide &#8220;De-Baptism Day&#8221; last October to encourage Roman Catholics to renounce their church affiliation. In Spain, a high court ruled that Manuel Blat, of Valencia, could have his baptism records erased under data protection laws. In Britain, the NSS chief said, &#8220;the fact that people are willing to pay for the (de-baptism) parchments shows how seriously they are taking them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RNS LONDON, UK, April 5, 2009: A secular organization in Britain that backs an atheist ad campaign on London&#8217;s buses,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}