As an atheist...
I think I'm just going to have to agree with you.
If I don't believe in any gods, then any baptisms I've had are irrelevant. They don't need to be "undone". In fact, I think that, logically, the only reason to have an unbaptism would be to disassociate yourself from a god that you believe to exist (whether to be "non-aligned", or to align yourself with a different god).
You're quite right. These are the sort of atheists that I don't like, either; they are the ones that treat their atheism as a religion (including evangelizing and proselytizing). I can never tell whether they are trying to "prove their superiority", prove something to themselves, or are just outright jerks (or, perhaps, as you said - attention-seeking whiny babies).
The only time the OTHER kind of atheist (my kind) will get in your face about it is if you're trying to shove your faith - or its rules - down my throat (by fair means or foul). I am more than willing to have (civil!) discussions about it, and I like learning about, well, any religion I've come across (so far). Just don't try to convert me (I usually give "one free attempt" before I get annoyed), and definitely don't try to force me.
If someone tells me that they Know the Truth, I will find them to be not generally worth listening to.
If someone tells me that they Believe Certain Things, THAT I can usually respect.
If someone tells me I have to? We have a fight.

Being baptized is a community proclamation, be debaptized is the same. How is that so hard to understand?

"Being baptized is a community proclamation, be debaptized is the same. How is that so hard to understand?"

But who cares? This is one of those things that doesn't need to receive less attention, it needs to be completely ignored. Fine you don't think that there is a god. What does that have to do with the community?

Do I have to tell the community that I no longer believe in the tooth fairy?

When will we see "debamizations" in public? They are already the hot trend in private; and since Obama hopeNchangers made their adoration a public issue, I sure hope the victims will recant in public too. After all, as Damien notes, its a community proclamation.

I'll bring the beer.

I rarely comment, but Az Atheist, I have to say that I'm a Christian and one of my best friends in the world is an atheist. We're close friends, and though I worry for her and she worries for me, we've always been a bit confused at people who come to blows over this stuff. I think some people just like to fight. So you find believers looking to create a challenge as well as atheists. I guess I'm saying, I vote for "they're jerks".

This reminds me of a practice that was short lived a few years back. Some folks who had given up their virginity went through some ritual process; I honestly don't remember the details. Nevertheless, once completing the process they were then able to claim that they had acquired a state of being known as "secondary virginity". Poof! They were virgins again. Go figure.

"What does that have to do with the community?"

The fact that you even need to ask the question shows the answer. Like it or not atheists in America are often a shunned, if not persecuted, minority. They band together because it's human instinct to do so, not because of any sort of religious motivation.

Rituals such as debaptism may seem like pointless attention grabbing to you, but they're a bonding experience for those involved. The fact that USA Today decided to write an article about it is irrelevant, and if it bothers theists so much they can ignore the article.

"The fact that USA Today decided to write an article about it is irrelevant, and if it bothers theists so much they can ignore the article."

Yet it's the atheists who insist on public displays mocking religion, such as these 'ceremonies' and the billboard ads that were in the news recently. So, ask yourself, "If religion bothers atheists so much, then why can't you/they just ignore it?"

What about us agnostics? We're damned if we do and and damned if we don't.

What about Scientolgists? That crap was dreamed up by a science FICTION writer. Hello?

I'm with A in Az. I too am an atheist(small a).
I was born and raised Catholic, but I don't ever remember really believing in god. The very idea of a "debaptism" is stupid to me.
Atheists (capitol A) are a bunch of Evangelical fools as annoying to me as Benny Hinn or Jim Baker, et al.
Their hatred of theological religions has become their own religion and they've become as one with much of that which they ridicule.

Oh, an my take on someone like Hitchens and Maher, who claim Religion is to blame for every thing (like Marx never caused any problems. . .) is basically that the problem is not religion, it is People.
Can't have a dispute without the people to dispute with.

"Rituals such as debaptism may seem like pointless attention grabbing to you, but they're a bonding experience for those involved."

Pathetic way to get laid if you ask me.

So you only get together with friends or likeminded individuals to get laid Xerocky?

This particular sort of god-fearing atheist really annoys me. Their compulsion to elevate their non-belief to the status of a religion for which they proselytize is nothing more than an visible symptom of their own neurotic self-doubt.

There is no evangelical quite like an evangelical atheist.

I once asked one annoying me and some friends if he put down "evangelical atheist" on the Census.

My friends ( one an atheist, one a born-again Christian ) were very amused. Both understood the reference immediately.