ScratchMoore t1_j9zg71o wrote on February 25, 2023 at 6:25 PM

Reply to comment by helpfulpittsburgh in Churches offering baptism in Pittsburgh to non parishioners? by [deleted]

Churches don’t do that for free. That will cost some amount of money. And they don’t allow anyone to just randomly get baptized. They’ll need to go to classes and get indoctrinated into their specific religion and vouch for their sincerity about being baptized and all that.

helpfulpittsburgh t1_j9zgilp wrote on February 25, 2023 at 6:27 PM

The point was you are probably already indoctrinated if you’re asking to be baptized, and I cannot think of a Christian church that charges a fee for baptism. There may be a tradition of making a donation to the church if you can afford it, but there’s not a fee.

ScratchMoore t1_j9zib6g wrote on February 25, 2023 at 6:39 PM

Fee, donation, alms, whatever. It’s all the same thing. There may not be a set cost, but there is definitely an expectation of a donation. Just like eating out. Nobody is forced to tip, but in reality you have to tip.

Also, OP mentions not regularly attending a Christian church. There’s no specifics. If they were raised Baptist, I have to venture a guess that they would have to accept the teachings of the Lutheran or Catholic dogmas and be indoctrinated into a specific denomination before getting baptized.