If I wanted to get excommunicated by the Catholic church, how would I go about doing that? (I'm an atheist)

@niplav also interested in the answer to this question, since apparently I was secretly baptized by 2 different relatives

@jeffcliff @niplav You can tell the local priest that you want to leave the church. He will tell you the address to contact. Your wish to leave will be registered. But: the baptism will not be undone. If you are really an atheist, you can of course be thoroughly indifferent to what the church says about it.

@boromir @jeffcliff
okay, that seems reasonable

i was thinking more about what unhinged stuff i would have to do for the catholic church excommunicate me in its own impetus, without me asking them

i don't think i've heard about an excommunication in the 21st century, even for people who misused church assets, maybe even for the pedophiles?

@niplav @boromir you're looking at the wrong harms -

The catholic church isn't going to excommunicate pedophiles, that's too close to home. They might excommunicate a civil rights organizer or an abortionist or something though

@niplav @boromir @Eris

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