My adult niece joined a new church and just had her rebaptism tonight. My mother happened to mention that Methodists don’t do infant baptisms so I was only “dedicated” as a baby and was supposed to follow that with an actual baptism when I was 12. Obviously I never did that. So I’m happily a heathen instead of a heretic. 
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Welcome to the club! I was never baptized either, because the church didn’t like the people Mom chose as godparents. So I am legally a pagan. 
I’m envious. I mean, it’s not my fault some priest sprinkled water on me when I was too young and helpless to object, but there it is. Can’t undo it. Just got to ignore it.
Never baptized. Mom said my kids weren’t born in sin so no reason to cleanse them. Apparently her previous religion believed baptism was meant to cleanse the baby. Good for her.
You lucky bastards! I’m jealous.
I was, and I’ll never get that stain out.
My parents adopted me when I was three, and had me baptized then (no idea if I’d been baptized earlier, or if anyone had kept track - I’d spent time in and out of foster care, with my birth father, and in a Catholic orphanage, so no answer would suprise me).
Anyway, I was already insufferably talkative at that age. According to my parents, I proudly ran around afterward telling anyone who would listen, “I got advertised today!”
On the other hand, Catholics would say that there’s no such thing as “rebaptism”. Catholics recognize the baptism of almost all Christian sects, and only once. So if your niece changed again, to a Catholic church, she might get a small ceremony, but she wouldn’t be baptized again.
Baptized, Confessed, Communioned, Confirmed and Quit. In that order. Ages 0, 7, 7, 9 and 14, respectively.
I was baptized at age 10 by the EUB - which became the “United” in United Methodist in 1968.
So - does the United Methodist baptize at 11 now?
I renounced the whole thing to become a heathen. At age 14.
Quakers don’t do it ever, so it was never in the picture for me.
Why not?
I was raised in the Friends Church. The Quaker position is that baptism comes from the Holy Spirit, not from man.
Water baptism was a prophecy. John the Baptist said “I’m baptizing you with water, but one is coming who is more powerful than I, and I’m not worthy to untie his sandal straps. It is he who will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.”
Friends also don’t do communion like other denominations do, based on the fact that the last supper was an actual meal, and that Jesus said to think of him whenever we eat or drink, not just as part of a ritual.
I don’t know how long ago your “dedication” was, but United Methodists do indeed do infant baptisms.
That Roman Catholic Church are the ones who handled her first baptism. 
There was a brief period in high school where she wanted to become a nun (granted that was after my sister made her and her younger sister stay in the room for the birth of my nephew).
Very similarly with me – my mother (of agnostic ex-Church of England [Episcopalian, for Americans] parents), couldn’t “buy” the C of E’s stance (as was 70 years ago, anyway) of all humans being born wicked and sinful: the only way out of that being Christianity, and infant baptism the first step in same.
I figure that were I to, this late in my life, “get religion”; I can get baptised if appropriate – or if not, no biggie – the types of Christianity in which I would put any stock, see baptism not as anything vitally necessary: just a ceremony, the outward-and-visible symbol of something deeper and of greater importance.
I’m too much a rational materialist (Is that a thing? Or did I make that up?), so even though I teach Lutheran confirmation classes, I don’t think anything mystical happens.
But that doesn’t rob it of its symbolic power. And as symbolism goes, you really can’t beat Full Immersion Baptism for saying “I’m dying to my old self and becoming someone new!”
And I’ve been baptized twice, neither as an infant, and both by submersion.
The first was when I was 5. I specifically remember repeating back the doctrine I was taught (and not just in the same words), and they were so impressed they said I could be baptized. This was before I had any fear of water. I specifically remember being surprised that the water didn’t go up my nose like it usually did when I went underwater.
The second time was in college. I went to a Pentecostal Church, and wound up maybe speaking in tongues. It wasn’t the experience I was taught about as a kid. Anyways, they wanted me baptized, and I didn’t see any reason not to. They apparently did it so often they had waterproof suits you could zip on over your clothes so they could baptize you right then and there.
I stuck with them for a little bit as a keyboardist, but eventually left.
Does baptism carry legal weight in your country? Because in my country, we have the kids do this oath thing with the national flag, but I am not sure it really means anything. I remember it from grade school, but it seemed like we were just saying words, some of which we did not even understand.
Sounds about the same for me, but I know I ‘lost my faith’ before 14. In fact, I know it was before confirmation. I recall at the first confirmation meeting, whoever was running it saying ‘if you don’t want to be here and you’re only here because your parents are forcing you, just leave now’, and one of my (rather bullheaded) classmates getting up and walking out. I’m sure I wasn’t the only person that did a faceplam and thought to myself ‘OMG, you weren’t actually supposed to do that, just suck it up for an hour, once a week for a few weeks and you’re done’. I mentioned it to my mom and who basically said the same but also brought up that if she doesn’t do it at some point she won’t be able to have a catholic (ie church) wedding someday (not looking to get nitpicky on that, just repeating what I heard).
And that’s the thing, I knew I was atheist at that point, but I also knew I just had to go through the motions for a little longer and I’d be done. Fun fact, all us Eagle Scouts also had to suck it up and say “yes” to the question “Do you believe in God”, it’s actually a requirement.
OTOH, she’s a lawyer now and I’m not, so there’s that.
Just very, very quickly looking online, because I’ve never really heard of rebaptisim (and I did go to a catholic school for 10 years, along with attending a catholic mass twice a weeking during that time). When searching for Methodist rebaptisim, most of the results seemed to acknowledge it, but spoke about why it shouldn’t be done.
It seems like there are cases for it (and they seem to be fanwanks, at best) but it doesn’t appear to be at all common.