Well this is just neat! The National Secular Society, which I gather is a bunch of my fellow Tools of Satan over in the UK, are offering these clever statements of conscience for a mere three pounds or euros or whatever they’re using Over There this week.
I’m a little too broke to drop that kind of money, plus international shipping, on feel-good frivolity at the moment but I’m still appreciative of the idea and 100% with the NSS in spirit.
And that kind of commitment is why churches have billions and I’m still renting a two-bedroom in LA.
Thanks to That Nice Mr. Warren Ellis for finding this:
The certficate declares:
I ________ having been subjected to the Rite of Christian Baptism in infancy (before reaching an age of consent), hereby publicly revoke any implications of that Rite and renounce the Church that carried it out. In the name of human reason, I reject all its Creeds and all other such superstition in particular, the perfidious belief that any baby needs to be cleansed by Baptism of alleged ORIGINAL SIN, and the evil power of supposed demons. I wish to be excluded henceforth from enhanced claims of church membership numbers based on past baptismal statistics used, for example, for the purpose of securing legislative privilege.”
