This stunt (pictured) was set up by American Atheists, according to a story in the Columbus Dispatch. They described it as a "coming-out party" for atheists.
Well, if you were baptised, you were made wet. A blow job with a hair dryer seems the best antidote.
The master of ceremonies was AA's president, Frank Zindler, who called to the assembled throng, "Do you agree that the magical potency of today's ceremony is exactly equal to the magical efficacy of ceremonial baptism with dihydrogen oxide, and do you agree that the power of all magical ceremonies is nonexistent?"
There was a huge "amen", while the first in the queue was calling, "Dry me, brother! I'm free!" The congregation loved it.
"It sounds perhaps frivolous, but it's a very serious thing," Zindler told reporters before the ceremony. "The event is more of an invitation to a revolution more than a party in a sense. Until we come out of the closet and let people know our numbers, politicians think they can ignore us."
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