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I read this article recently about atheists using hairdryers to “de-baptize” people. They hold a mock ceremony with one person wearing a monk’s frock, and he blows hot air on them to “taketh away the stigma and taketh away the remnants of the stain of baptismal water.”
Hearing this makes me very very sad. I know that people get hurt by religion, and even by others who claim to act in the name of Jesus Christ. That is a horribly unfortunate ramification of fallen, imperfect humanity using religion to its own end. Probably these individuals were hurt by religion, or by religious leaders.
But I don’t believe they have any idea of what they do. Perhaps they are disillusioned, or they just don’t think about what they are doing. Maybe they really believe that by removing that symbolic washing that indicates they have died to sin and been raised to Christ, that they will attain some freedom from God’s judgment. Either way it tears my heart out, because they are rejecting the only One who can help them to truly find freedom and peace. Instead they are heaping judgment on themselves. It is one thing to avoid the question because it is a difficult one – it is quite another to deliberately and explicitly reject Him.
Interestingly, the atheist group leader’s son has made the opposite choice, and has become a born-again Christian. God does have an interesting sense of humor.
