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What happens to unbaptized children. Surely Our Father would not damn them to hell for the failings of their parents and the society that raised their parents and their parent's parents.

Oh Lord, please do not damn unbaptized children to hell. It is too cruel a thought.
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I always lean into this heavily when discussing religion with Christians. Not to undermine their fath, but to encourage them not to be autists about fringe dogma and biblical literalism. In accordance with the strict biblical paradigm, this subject is a wash. Babies go to hell, no question about it. They have the inherited original sin that damns, and no way to receive the faith that delivers from it either through sacrament or intellectual assent.

But that would be so obviously retarded and evil that of course no one takes it seriously. No one except the neurotic sociopath Christians will gleefully accept the notion that babies go to hell, even though it's the most direct conclusion from Christian teaching in a vacuum. I think it's the gateway to realizing that everyone is taking tons of little liberties left and right in their interpretation of the Bible so that it actually works for them, no exceptions.

Best to just focus on the life in front of you, follow the moral law as well as you can, and don't overthink the theological anything, if you even think about it at all.
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