LINK Catholicism Just Fell Apart Because the Vatican Said Some Baptisms Were Fake | Val Wilde | Friendly Atheist | Patheos
It seems that, in the waning years of the 20th century, some Catholic churches and priests decided to make a minor change to the wording of the baptismal rite, using the phrase “we baptize” in place of “I baptize” to denote the involvement of the entire parish community in the child’s developing faith — a sort of spiritual version of “it takes a village.”
Earlier this year, though, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (the Inquisition, rebranded) declared that any baptisms performed with that modified formula were invalid: The use of the wrong set of words meant they never really became part of the Catholic Church.
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I have mixed reactions about this. I was baptised Catholic. However I rejected all faiths around age 10. Should I care?
Alienbeing
Level 8
Oct 9, 2020
1
It's all nonsense, whether church sanctioned or not.
@Theresa_N No one here would argue with that.
I believe it is just a plot to get millions of people to go back to their churches and PAY for a new baptism.
Rodatheist
Level 7
Oct 8, 2020
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I think we should forget about this silly Vatican pronouncement and concentrate on really important questions, like: how many angels can fit on the tip of a pin?
Rodatheist
Level 7
Oct 8, 2020
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I can miss spell a web sites name and still get there. Does that mean that God is less powerful than Google?
273kelvin
Level 8
Oct 8, 2020
5
No, it means he has very mediocre management on his Earth branch.
@Rodatheist Interns... what can you do? It's impossible to get good staff nowadays
Some website buy alternate spelling domain names to increase traffic and make it easier for peopel to find their sites.
Wait til people find out about the wafer thing... 
Mvtt
Level 7
Oct 8, 2020
4
LOL ,back in the early 60's, when I was about 10 years old, my friends and I 'nicked' a whole box of those 'wafer' things and a dozen bottles of their 'sacramental Plonk ( wine) from the Catholic Church in the neighbourhood, shit, they tasted so terrible even my parent's chickens refused to eat them.
Btw, the wine ain't much better either, tastes more like diluted raspberry cordial mixed with water left over from washing dirt socks and underwear imo, blimey, the plonk was so horrible we couldn't even get the local 'winos' to buy it from us even at our reduced price of 10 pence (10 cents) per bottle.
Fake baptisms!
TheGreatShadow
Level 9
Oct 8, 2020
1
At least it was not fake orgasms.
I'm so glad I decided to be an Atheist. Instead of jumping through the hoops to become an Catholic. Religion is such a waste of time.
freedom41
Level 9
Oct 8, 2020
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And phony also.
All religion is fake, so all believers are deluded.
Willow_Wisp
Level 8
Oct 8, 2020
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@Thirst2learn Are you following me around just to contradict me?
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