Comments by "Classical LP Vault" (@classicallpvault8251) on "Feli from Germany"
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@jeffbguarino This is abject nonsense. The Canadian constitution allows freedom of religion and this includes the freedom of parents to raise their children in their chosen religion and that includes child baptism in religions that do not limit baptism to professed believers.
Also, children require order, cleanliness and rest, and even making sure their basic needs are met, inevitably requires coercion. There's no difference to forcing them to eat their broccoli or putting their sweater on vs. having them baptised. Until they are of the age of reason their parents should decide what is best for them. And if parents mess up? Well, natural selection will not be kind to those who encourage maladaptive behaviour in their offspring, but natural selection is weeding out the irreligious, not the religious. Fertility rates and religiosity are significantly positively correlated, and this relationship is at least in part causal.
Furthermore, there's evidence to suggest that religions can potentially also cause voluntary eugenics by encouraging natalism and assigning high social status to a large family size. Among LDS Church members, socioeconomic status is weakly positively correlated with fertility.
You cannot get un-baptised but you can be scrapped from the membership rolls of your diocese, and there's no point to being un-baptised because if you're not a believer it's just a sprinkling of water by some robed weirdo.
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