There's A Sucker Born Every Minute

There's A Sucker Born Every Minute

I can understand why some people stop being Christians. (Often because they are surrounded by people who are talking the talk, and utterly failing the walk.) But to make such a loud proclamation seems a bit weird. But someone sounds like they are so desperate that they are making someone else well off. From March 29, 2009 AFP:

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.
John Hunt, a 58-year-old from London and one of the first to try to be "de-baptised," held that he was too young to make any decision when he was christened at five months old.

Being a Protestant, I don't think that infant baptism makes any sense. But because it makes no sense, it makes even less sense to make a point of being "de-baptised."

UPDATE: Yes, Anglicans are formally Protestant, but in many respects closer to the Catholic Church than Protestantism. But I did not know that Lutherans do infant baptism. I'm shocked!