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'Burgers for baptism': 13-year-old baptised without parents' consent
Parents of a 13-year-old boy are angry a church baptised him without their knowledge at an event they say lured him to a park paddling pool font with burgers and lollies.
Bay of Plenty mother Jesse Brown and her partner Luke were “shocked and upset” when their son came home from the park holding a bible and told them he’d just been baptised at a ‘gospel crusade’ event.
“I asked my son if he knew what baptism was, and he didn’t have a clue. His mates also did it. They’d had these huge burgers that they loved... they were just getting amongst it like kids do. There was no mention in the advertising for the event that there was baptism involved. It was like it was targetted at kids with the food and activities.”
A family friend spotted a video of their son’s baptism on the church’s social media pages.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/bay-of-plenty/3008...ts-consent
'Burgers for baptism': 13-year-old baptised without parents' consent
Parents of a 13-year-old boy are angry a church baptised him without their knowledge at an event they say lured him to a park paddling pool font with burgers and lollies.
Bay of Plenty mother Jesse Brown and her partner Luke were “shocked and upset” when their son came home from the park holding a bible and told them he’d just been baptised at a ‘gospel crusade’ event.
“I asked my son if he knew what baptism was, and he didn’t have a clue. His mates also did it. They’d had these huge burgers that they loved... they were just getting amongst it like kids do. There was no mention in the advertising for the event that there was baptism involved. It was like it was targetted at kids with the food and activities.”
A family friend spotted a video of their son’s baptism on the church’s social media pages.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/bay-of-plenty/3008...ts-consent
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"