Former President Of Ireland Says Baptisms Restrict "Inalienable Intellectual Human Rights"

 

Mary McAleese, the former president of Ireland, recently spoke at University College Cork (UCC), using her time and platform to attack the practice of infant baptism. The Irish Times published excerpts from her speech. “Catholic parents are under a strict Catholic canon law obligation to have their children baptized at the earliest opportunity, hence infant Baptism is normative,” she opined.

McAleese added, regarding her own baptism, “Nothing else was to shape my life so powerfully or impose such formidable restrictions on my inalienable intellectual human rights as that brief Sunday Baptism ceremony 7½ decades ago. It does the same to the almost 40,000 children baptized every day across five continents, enrolling them as life members of the Church with a no-exit policy and without their consent.”

Baptism is intended by believers to free children from original sin and open to them the life of grace. That’s why it is “normative.” It is a recognition of our fallen state and an attempt at helping to pave the way to eternal life for our beloved children.

And really, what “formidable restrictions” are placed on our “inalienable intellectual human rights” by dipping the top of a baby’s cranium into water for a few seconds? Does McAleese mean that the act might later make one feel a touch of guilt when contemplating committing a heinous act? Is that a bad thing? As for locking them in “as life members of the Church with a no-exit policy and without their consent,” people routinely convert to other religions. “Without their consent” is the phrase McAleese used that most amused me. Does she mean feeding them, diapering them, vaccinating them, caring for them? All of these are done “without” an infant’s “consent.”

Mary is pro-abortion, which is predictable. Guess what other action is commonplace and performed without the baby’s consent? ABORTION. The act of exterminating your own child in—or maybe out of-- your womb is the most “formidable restriction” on a baby’s “inalienable intellectual human rights” possible. It is also the blatant denial of the inherent right, granted by our Creator, to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. But people like McAleese are too ignorant, self-serving, or full of hate to comprehend even the astoundingly obvious.

And let’s not even get started on the genital mutilation of children, of which, I’m guessing, McAleese is in favor.

Baptism is a good thing. And the U.S.—and the West in general—could also use a baptism of fire.