Deep Thoughts: Another reason not to become a Christian

Monday, February 23, 2009

Another reason not to become a Christian

Baptism can kill...

Four people drowned on Sunday morning during two separate church baptism ceremonies in Eldorado Park in Johannesburg and Bloemfontein in the Free State, police said.

Everything about this story sounds wrong. Who would jump in a fast moving river in Africa? If the current don’t get you, the snakes, crocodiles, hippos, or various other bad animals will. And all for what? You get to go to heaven when you die… which is in five minutes if you set foot in that friggen river.

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sovereignjohn · 843 weeks ago

Like I've always said, Christians are Dying to get into heaven instead of living for today.

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calladus · 843 weeks ago

There were two separate baptisms in which people died? I guess they didn't communicate with each other, 'cause if they did you'd think the first group would have mentioned to the second that this is a "really bad idea"...

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Mojoey 107p · 843 weeks ago

I am sure they would have talked, but the first group was kind of dead already.

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calladus · 843 weeks ago

If you drown during a baptism... does it count? Do you end up in Heaven? Or is it invalid because you neglected to resurface?

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Raytheist 108p · 843 weeks ago

Holy crap... these are different from the ones I wrote about here:

http://www.raywhiting.com/MyLife/?p=2222

4 teens drowned at one baptism service at a private man-made pond, and then 3 others at yet a different one. ALL in Africa. Is there something wrong with the waters in Africa

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Mojoey 107p · 843 weeks ago

I'm thinking they don't know who to swim.

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zaatheist · 843 weeks ago

It is a standing, albeit racist joke, in South Africa that the indigenous African people are referred to as "non-swimmers."

There are plenty of weird varieties of xtian religion in South Africa (all very profitable) as well as more traditional superstitions involving witchdoctors, faith healers, etc.

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