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by palmagma on March 13th, 2009

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The National Secular Society would like the Church of England to devise a formal procedure to cancel baptisms (when a baptized adult so requests it) with a change in the baptismal roll as part of the procedure. Your comments?

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  • by BenUK78 on January 12th, 2012

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    This is down to the way Churches calculate their membership and how they approach government with the figure. The COE doesn't use baptism records, so it is a little pointless in that respect - although it might still be good as a 'protest vote'.

    The Catholic Church does use baptism records when calculating the number of Catholics in a country though, and that is part of the figure they use to lobby government. It is one of the ways you end up in a situation where you have say 20 million Catholics in a country, but Church attendance never regularly goes above 2 million. All the people who have left and never attend are still counted.

    In a sense it is akin to becoming a member of a political party at birth and still having them quote you as a lifetime member when you have joined another party. I.e it isn't necessarily good for democracy when groups claim more followers than they actually have. It tends to skew things.

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