Baptists

Baptists reject infant baptism.

Jews don't recognise Jesus. Protestants don't recognise the pope. Baptists don't recognise each other in a wine store.

In January 1877, the priest of the village Grigoryevka, Kherson Governorate, reported to the diocesan authorities that in his village Baptists cry, sing and kiss the floor during their prayers.

During Soviet times, Baptists resorted to being baptized at night in the forest to avoid being arrested.

The predecessors of the Russian Baptists are the Molokans, who massively converted to Baptism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, so Russian Baptists are significantly different from European and American Baptists.

Mama and cousin Eve often wax nostalgic about Roman Catholicism, evident when we have pasta meals at home. They are both converts to Protestantism. My late father Frank (or Jun) was the pioneer in my extended family, largely Roman Catholic, for conversion. Also, my paternal grandmother Lydia followed. My maternal grandfather Macario was already a Protestant of the United Church of Christ. He read literature from Baptists under Papa's influence. My Roman Catholic maternal grandmother Bebe was happy-go-lucky and couldn't care less about these things. My paternal grandfather Pito (Francisco) listened to Papa's witnessing and was proselytized to even at the death bed, when he died in his seventies.

Both my parents grew up Roman Catholic in the Philippines. In the 1970s there, my father liked reading the paranormal genre, like books by Erich von Däniken and Tuesday Lobsang Rampa. So, he then even liked non-Xtian ideas. My parents, in the 1980s, converted to Protestant Baptists several years after landing in Canada. But my father continued reading the paranormal genre, like books by Deepak Chopra and James Redfield. He believed in meditation and rebirth or reincarnation. He recounted to me his afterlife scenario that his "mind" would migrate to a newborn baby on a faraway "planet," and there he would grow up in a new life. I showed to my parents my elaborate Buddhist temple, and my father was on the verge of reading literature from there. My father passed away in 2013.