Does anyone else find this troubling?

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Great argument in favor of infant baptism. I’m guessing from the age of the children and the pastor’s attire that it’s NOT a Catholic baptism.

I’m glad the pastor didn’t seem to be amused.
 
But you have to admit that that pastor handled the situation rather well considering. As for that child though:tsktsk:
 
I’m not disturbed by it at all.

One, it wasn’t a Catholic baptism, That was pretty obvious.

Two Since protestants don’t generally consider baptism to be sacramental in nature but by and large merely an entrance into their particular community, as long as they thought it was OK its OK. Their Pastor wasn’t upset, the kid sure wasn’t upset and the congregation thought it was great.👍

Three It really isn’t up to us to agonize over what the protestants do in their communities.:eek: We have enough nonsense in the Church to worry about.
 
love4mary said:
But you have to admit that that pastor handled the situation rather well considering. As for that child though:tsktsk:
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Yes. I hope the parents spoke to the child after and offered to replace the pastor’s prayer book (appeared to be leather).
 
No. I am not troubled by it. It’s not a Catholic Baptism.
This child was excited by his faith. Who am I to put him down?
His antics are unexpected and the pastor did handle himself gracefully.

sheesh - let’s stop ripping everyone down and snitting about others.
 
japhy said:
Anyway, it is a shame that baptism is something akin to a “dunk-tank” there.
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While this particular clip was irreverent, the baptism itself wasn’t. How would you propose doing an adult immersion baptism?
 
Phemie said:
While this particular clip was irreverent, the baptism itself wasn’t. How would you propose doing an adult immersion baptism?
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When my father-in-law was baptized (at the tender age of 67 👍 ), he and the other adult catechumenates simply leaned over the baptismal font and the priest poured water over their heads.

This was the Roman Catholic Church. In the Eastern Catholic churches it is traditional to baptize through immersion–babies, children, adults alike. They don’t just immerse once though–it is three immersions, quickly done.
 
catherineajt said:
When my father-in-law was baptized (at the tender age of 67 👍 ), he and the other adult catechumenates simply leaned over the baptismal font and the priest poured water over their heads.

This was the Roman Catholic Church. In the Eastern Catholic churches it is traditional to baptize through immersion–babies, children, adults alike. They don’t just immerse once though–it is three immersions, quickly done.
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Oh, I agree that the baptism we see in this video is not a Trinitarian baptism and wouldn’t be recognized as a baptism by the Roman Catholic Church. And yes, pouring is the usual means of baptism in the RCC but immersion is starting to be used more frequently. In parishes that don’t have immersion fonts, those are sometimes improvised.
 
I was baptized in a Baptist church at the ripe old age of 11 in one of those “dunk tanks.” It was one of the greatest moments of my life (right up there with my confirmation into the Catholic Church a the really ripe old age of 26). While this boy obviously forgot his manners to say the least, most immersion baptisms are very special and reverant. I’ve seen many adults baptized in the same way and can tell you it is possible and is often very beautiful.
 
Phemie said:
While this particular clip was irreverent, the baptism itself wasn’t. How would you propose doing an adult immersion baptism?
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By “dunk-tank”, I didn’t mean baptism by immersion, I meant simply that the kid thought it would be funny to cannonball into the baptismal pool and splash the pastor.
 
japhy said:
By “dunk-tank”, I didn’t mean baptism by immersion, I meant simply that the kid thought it would be funny to cannonball into the baptismal pool and splash the pastor.
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Oh, OK. It thought you were referring to the whole process, sorry. If that kid had been mine he probably, except for meals, wouldn’t have come out of his bedroom for about a month.
 
There are a several things that I would like to say about the boy and the congregation of that “church”, you know, the ones who were laughing. However, I like CAF and I do not want to get suspended or banned. Nor do I want to have to go to confession. I am already having trouble with some rather uncharitable thoughts.

The loss of the sense of sacred is terrible and irreplaceable.
 
rpp said:
There are a several things that I would like to say about the boy and the congregation of that “church”, you know, the ones who were laughing. However, I like CAF and I do not want to get suspended or banned. Nor do I want to have to go to confession. I am already having trouble with some rather uncharitable thoughts.

The loss of the sense of sacred is terrible and irreplaceable.
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Even the most “liberal” Catholic would have to agree with that!

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krissy343 said:
I’m speaking of the second boy in the video below. I find it VERY troubling that everyone is laughing!
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I am troubled beyond words.

Oh my Jesus, forgive us our sins.
Save us from the fires of Hell.

That is exactly the kind of thing that happened at my phony wedding to the pastor’s kid, many years ago. It was the saddest day of my life. The whole family behaved that way. 😦
 
Now my thoughts on the video…the thing that troubled me greatly was the child’s lack of respect for his pastor. I have Protestant friends and neighbors, and they all expect their children to respect the pastor of their church–not to mention other adults! That child would not have done such a thing if he hadn’t been brought up with a lack of respect for his elders.
 
In a lot of Evangelical churches, humor is BIG. Many people didn’t quite get Mike Huckabee because of it. Frequently, the discomfort many of them have with ritual or solemnity will manifest itself in humor. In that regards, the video did not surprise me at all.
 
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