Mormon feels strongly about the practice of baptizing little children, and his personal feelings boil over while he condemns the practice. His reasoning behind such a dire condemnation is that the person who advocates such baptisms misunderstands the atonement. Such a misunderstanding means that the individual lacks proper faith and certainly has no accurate hope. The presumption of the need for such baptism and teaching it to parents whose children are so vulnerable to early death is contrary to charity. For all of those reasons, Mormon does not consider such a person to be properly Christian.