I think that baptism/christening should take place when you're old enough to understand what is happening (an adult maybe). I think that would solve the indoctrination issue to a certain extent but, of course, that is the reason why that it happen.

Now who do I see about getting excommunicated.... is being gay enough?

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For our primitive ancestors it was a "logical" extrapolation from the world they saw around them. They made things -- pots, clothing, weapons, huts, etc -- so surely "somebody" must have made the rest of it -- mountains, oceans, themselves.

In the "childhood" of humankind, this worked very well. It made the thunder and lightning more comprehensible, and therefore less terrifying. And, of course, it allowed us to cast ourselves as the pinnacle of the creator's work.

But you know, the Bible itself has something to say about that.

1 Corinthians 13:11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.