Now Mr Hunt has become the pioneer in a rejuvenated campaign for a way of cancelling baptisms given to children too young to decide for themselves whether they wanted this formal initiation into Christianity.
However, baptism is proving a difficult thing to undo.
The local Anglican diocese, Southwark, refused to amend the baptismal roll as Mr Hunt had wanted, on the grounds that it was a historical record.
"You can't remove from the record something that actually happened," said the Bishop of Croydon, the Right Reverend Nick Baines.
Found this golden nugget within the story:
Instead the diocese suggested that the best way for Mr Hunt to renounce his baptism was to advertise it in the London Gazette, a journal of record with an ancestry going back to the 17th Century.
There really wasn't any reason for them to include the details of how old the newspaper was other than to throw in a "17".
The article also talks about Baptism as a "death and rebirth" initiation (I didn't even know that!) so there's even more Osiris stuff... Better to mock-drown the children rather than throw them into a well or bury them alive, I suppose..?
Just to tie things up...
Death - Baptized in Blood
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