O schimbare dictată de logica bunului simț. Mai rămâne una, să boteze doar pe cei ce se pot lepăda singuri, la maturitate, de diavolul. Altfel, cu doar o jumătate de schimbare, biserica anglicana pare că va boteza de acum doar pe cei ce rămân loiali satanei, Doamne ferește!
Devil in the details
RELIGION | The Church of England waters down baptism
The Anglican Church has introduced a revised version of its baptismal service that replaces language deemed “inaccessible” to unchurched people. In particular, the new ceremony removes promises that parents and godparents had previously made to repent of sin and to “reject the devil.” The archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, supports the change.
Even though attendance at British Anglican congregations is generally quite low, many unchurched parents still wish to have newborns baptized. “In some instances,” the Anglican Liturgy Commission notes, “there are few people present [at a baptism] who have any real understanding of the Church’s language and symbolism.”
The current liturgy, which dates to 1998, has Anglican ministers ask parents if they “repent of the sins that separate us from God,” as well as renounce the devil and “rebellion against God.” The new text simply asks them, on behalf of the baby, if they “reject evil, and all its many forms, and all its empty promises.” The bishop of Wakefield, Stephen Platten, the Liturgy Commission chair, calls the older reference to the devil “theologically problematic.”
Conservative Anglican critics, such as Michael Nazir-Ali, the former bishop of Rochester, have decried the change. “Rather than the constant ‘dumbing down’ of Christian teaching,” Nazir-Ali says, “we should be spending time preparing people for these great rites of passage.”
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Barzilaiendan 
Who knows?… If they keep changing the baptismal liturgy they may end baptising just mature believers, God forbid!…