100,000 Enlightened Britons seek ‘de-baptism’

published on April 8, 2009

LONDON : More than 100,000 Britons have recently downloaded
“certificates of de-baptism” from the Internet to renounce their
Christian faith.

The initiative launched by a group called the National Secular Society
(NSS) follows atheist campaigns here and elsewhere, including a London
bus poster which triggered protests by proclaiming “There’s probably no
God.”

“We now produce a certificate on parchment and we have sold 1,500 units
at three pounds (4.35 dollars, 3.20 euros) a pop,” said NSS president
Terry Sanderson, 58.

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