Baptising children, right or wrong?

[Giff]

I believe parents have the right to baptize their children but I still think it's wrong. No more wrong then neo nazi's raising their children to be racist, or whatever other nonesense things parents drill into their kids heads. Its all dellusional, but it's still their right.

Is it spelled 'baptize'? I thought it was 'baptise'! Don't think my old english teacher would be pleased. Or is both right?

Anyway you have a good point. Parents have the right to baptise their child. But I would like to change that. Even though they have the right to do so doesn't mean it's acctually something that is right, just as you said.

It's first of all a marking. You are marking your child that it's christian. I mean you don't mark you child as an communist, nazi, socialist, DJ or nerd, right? What you say is: "That kid is a child of two communists" or "That child have two nerdy parents" and not "That is a communist child" or "That is boy is a nerd-child". Plus you don't go to a special place where you declare you children as a member of the nerdy society or a member of a socialist party.

But as you said the parents have, so far, the right to do so. BUt that needs to be changed.