cwstjdenobs said:Foxi4 said:It's not fair because it's not true. It's been mentioned earlier that people unaware of the gospel, and thus of their Original Sin shall be judged by means of The Natural Law. Non-believers are not automatically sent to hell, that's a retarded idea of zelaous priests that has nothing to do with the Catholic faith whatsoever.
And I guess Popes have nothing to do with the Catholic faith as well? In you interpretation it's not true but by your own declerations of what you believe you aren't a Catholic.
QUOTEA child that dies before it's even capable of commiting sin applies to this principle, as it does not understand the gospel. That said, it's also too young to commit any sin at all. Thus, it goes to heaven. If it was baptised before death, the "issue" is actually non-existant - baptising cleans off the Original Sin.
Yes but if it didn't have a baptism before it died? And come on, this is the church that won't allow stillborn babies to be buried properly because they aren't alive yet but won't allow abortion of even contraception because it's killing a human.
It's not my own fantasy by no means. Provide me sufficient ammout of excerpts saying that a child which died before being baptised is sure to go to hell, much like I provided you with excerts that such a person shall not earlier in the thread. Like it was said, Jesus as Judge is entirely entitled to make exceptions in "Special Cases", and I'd say this would be a special case indeed.
Contraception is an open subject in the catholic church even as we speak. Abortion is obviously killing a person, contraception like condoms and such... not so much. The very idea of contraception wasn't even "there" yet when religious texts were being written, hence the only real "text" I could apply here is the text about Onan's Sin, which was about onanism (masturbation) in the sense of wasting semen being a sin, however we all know that it's obselete by hundreds of years.
It all goes down to your own conscience, really.