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I am declaring my De-Baptism to the Catholic Church and requesting that I be removed from their list of saved souls that is used for statistical purposes. I have written the following letter and I am putting it in tomorrow's mail along with my De-Baptism certificate:
Most Holy Trinity Parish
Records Department
2040 Nassau Dr.
San Jose, CA 95122
To Whom It May Concern:
I was born on ________. I do not have my Baptismal date, but it was shortly thereafter I was baptized in San Jose, CA and my family attended Most Holy Trinity Church.
I wish to declare my formal defection from the Catholic Church in accordance with canons 1086, § 1, 1117 and 1124 of the Code of Canon Law as mentioned in notification Prot. N. 10279/2006 from the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts.
I hereby reject the teachings, dogma and authority of the Roman Catholic Church and any benefits, so-called sacraments, graces and blessings supposedly bestowed upon me, either in the past or the future. Furthermore, please note that I make these statements personally, consciously and freely.
Having been subjected to the Rite of Christian Baptism in infancy (before reaching an age of consent), I 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.
If de-baptism is not an option, please excommunicate me as an alternative. The main point is to be removed from your records as a member of your organization for statistical, legal, or resource/exemption purposes.
If this is not the correct agency to correct this clerical error, please tell me who I should contact.
I respectfully request confirmation that this act has been noted in the baptismal registry (cfr. can. 535, § 2) with explicit mention of the occurrence of a ‘defectio ab Ecclesia catholica actu formali’.”
Most Holy Trinity Parish
Records Department
2040 Nassau Dr.
San Jose, CA 95122
To Whom It May Concern:
I was born on ________. I do not have my Baptismal date, but it was shortly thereafter I was baptized in San Jose, CA and my family attended Most Holy Trinity Church.
I wish to declare my formal defection from the Catholic Church in accordance with canons 1086, § 1, 1117 and 1124 of the Code of Canon Law as mentioned in notification Prot. N. 10279/2006 from the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts.
I hereby reject the teachings, dogma and authority of the Roman Catholic Church and any benefits, so-called sacraments, graces and blessings supposedly bestowed upon me, either in the past or the future. Furthermore, please note that I make these statements personally, consciously and freely.
Having been subjected to the Rite of Christian Baptism in infancy (before reaching an age of consent), I 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.
If de-baptism is not an option, please excommunicate me as an alternative. The main point is to be removed from your records as a member of your organization for statistical, legal, or resource/exemption purposes.
If this is not the correct agency to correct this clerical error, please tell me who I should contact.
I respectfully request confirmation that this act has been noted in the baptismal registry (cfr. can. 535, § 2) with explicit mention of the occurrence of a ‘defectio ab Ecclesia catholica actu formali’.”
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Date: 11/17/09 05:30 am (UTC)From:In retrospect, I think a lot of my time in Hebrew School was wasted, but part of that is because I'm bad with language learning. If I'd actually picked up a second language out of it, it would have been worth it. They did teach Hebrew at Hebrew School. And most of it was about teaching history and culture, which I actually found interesting. Of course, I wasn't at an Orthodox temple. So, I have more or less okay thoughts about my past religious stuff.
Except for the services. It's really hard for me to sit through any temple services and not feel confined and horrible. I have to now and then for family reasons. I'll be going to one next year for my nephew's Bar Mitzvah (he's being raised very much Jewish and very much atheist and he chose to have a Bar Mitzvah of his own choosing). It's so much easier to be tolerant of other's beliefs when I'm not subjected to them so directly. Sometimes I'm kind of spiritual, but then I have to sit through a religious service and my brain just screams at me: this is such nonsense, how can anyone take this seriously?
I think the last time I kept my sanity by pretending they were all worshiping me. That helped a lot. Maybe I'll do that for this upcoming service too.
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Date: 11/20/09 07:25 am (UTC)From:My main reason for requesting a formal split is so that I am not counted among their population for statistical purposes, particularly when those statistics are used for legislative reasons :-)
My Catholic high school was actually a very good one, and I am grateful for my education there, including a good background in the Bible as a text as well as Christianity from a social/historical perspective.