The idea of a movement of people wanting to be de-baptized is of no consequence to me; I don’t know why they’d pursue it, but it really doesn’t matter to me. What caught me was this detail in NPR’s piece about a 71 year old man who wants his name completely removed from baptismal records: “Back then, he says, you couldn’t even get credit at the bakery if you didn’t go to mass every Sunday.”
That’s no good. If you’re in the situation where you need credit at the bakery, you don’t want to have it depend on how devout you are. But man, does that hit a nostalgia nerve for a time I never lived in.
