Where do I resign my baptism?

OK, this is disturbing. Not the part about people renouncing the faith they were born into -- that, I understand. No, my problem is right here: According to Argentine campaigner Ariel Bellino, a former Catholic: "The church counts all those who've been baptized as Catholic and lobbies for legislation based on that number....

I realize that I don't live in Argentina or the UK, but, yanno, I betcha the church is still counting me among the US faithful -- and I don't want to be on that list. Not only do I so not agree with almost everything the roman catholic church has to say about almost any topic relating to Life As I Know It To Be, I am by its own rules no longer a catholic. I have been excommunicated, like, a thousand times over:

Missed my Easter Duty? for years and years and YEARS

Married a divorced man, thereby living in "sin" for the past thirty years? oh, yeah

Used tarot cards and other tools of the Art Magical? ayuh

Embraced a Bohemian and artistic lifestyle? ...on second thought, that may not be on the Official List.

I had always believed that I had been struck from the church's census, since I don't show up in any parish documents, and I resent four thousand ways from tomorrow the fact that I'm (probably) still being counted as a roman catholic solely and only for the ADVERTISING VALUE, because my parents decided to have me baptized. I mean, it's fine that Mom and Dad were trying to look out for my eternal soul and all -- I'm not angry at them; they did what they thought was right. I just think that my adult decision to repudiate that baptism ought to count, here.

So, anyway -- does anyone know where I Officially Resign my baptism?

SRM Publisher Stimulus Package!

Here's a three-way stimulus package from SRM Publisher, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller!

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OK – small print:

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