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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OMG, you do not baptize a kid without parental consent!  That's an excellent way to lose access to your grandkids, among other things.

You should ask yourself why your adult children left the church.  You should consider their values -- are they so different from yours, really?  Are they good people, teaching their kids to be honest, kind, compassionate, etc.?  Do you trust that you did a good job raising them?[/quote]

No one can baptize a child without parental consent. [/quote]

Not in a church.  My brother went to a camp that wanted to re-baptize him and didn't want to allow a phone call home first.

I could see an over enthusiastic religious grandparent trying to do it in a scenario like that.  The big group baptisms in a lake.[/quote]

So your brother was already baptized, and your parents sent him to a religious camp, and you think he needed to call home to be re-baptized?

Once you are baptized, you are baptized.

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That's not what I said.

The group running the camp wanted to re-baptize him.  We had both been to that camp before without any talk of baptism.  A new director had taken over that year.

Various kids wanted to call home because they knew they didn't need to be baptized again.  They wanted their parents to stop it.

There are groups who will baptize without parental consent. [/quote]

What group was running the camp?

“Rebaptizing” someone isn’t the same thing as baptizing a child without parental consent.

Did this group (who you need to name) baptize kids w/o parental consent?

What groups do you know of who will baptize children w/o parental consent, links and citations mandatory.[/quote]

Well, it was about 40 years ago.  I don't recall which group this director and his staff were associated with.  Not a mainstream religion if I recall correctly.  It was a multidenomination camp.  Now closed. The camp nurse told me that I am disabled because I'm not close enough to God.  It was that kind of group.

Given that this is personal experience and decades ago, there are no citations.

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40 years ago your parents sent you and your brother to a non-denominational camp and you are aggrieved that your already baptized brother was going to be baptized again?

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Nope.  Just giving an example.  You're so sure it wouldn't happen... it did.

You have just a lovely day now.

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One anecdote that's 40 years old. Hardly an epidemic of forced baptisms.[/quote]

Nobody said there was an epidemic. [/quote]

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