A male nurse wants to be the first “Christian” in Britain to be “de-baptised” after complaining that at five-months-old he was too young to decide.
Mr John Hunt, 56, says that he wants his 1953 baptism at the St Jude and St Aidan parish church in the Southwark diocese, south London, cancelled because he was not consulted and does not believe in God.
Mr Hunt has had a “Certificate of De-baptism” made up, in which his baptism is revoked and has paid £60 to record it in the 17th-century London Gazette.
The diocese has agreed to have the church records amended with the Gazetted note.
Mr Hunt has obtained a de-baptism certificate from the National Secular Society, which reads: “I, John Geoffrey Hunt, having been