How does religion explain infant deaths?

@Morvoren Exactly. It doesn't make sense.

@Morvoren I thought they went to Limbo Infantum... Desparately trying to remember some of the Catholic stuff my grandparents tried to indoctrinate me with.

@KatyO83 If their gif really is a loving one it should be heaven.

@Morvoren I think the mentally ill go there too. It's distinct from hell but definitely not heaven. Baptism removes original sin. Without that happening you can't go to heaven.

@KatyO83 Why do newborns inherit the original sins? Is it present from birth by default? Does the burden of this sin have to be carried by every born person?

@Renkon from my memory - yes.

We need a practicing catholic here really

@KatyO83 May be one would help.

There was a massive flash flood not far from here. Several people died. It was late at night, and many were buried alive while sleeping. This included both children and infants. This has gotten me thinking.

@Morvoren it’s about control as I see it 😔

@Morvoren No they dont, they invented a special category called purgatory, limbo, just for this morally dubious reason. Your prayers act as credits that get them out of limbo and in through the pearly gates 😂

@TheDeathOfOzymandiaz I heard that the Catholic Church changed their minds on limbo/purgatory and apparently it was a misinterpretation of the Bible?

@Morvoren No Limbo..they go to heaven

@Egg01 Is the church changing their minds the same as god changing his?

@Morvoren Indeed they are

@Egg01 That can’t be right. How did god have a say in that meeting?

@KatyO83 Who said

@TheDeathOfOzymandiaz 👍

@Morvoren You’re asking the wrong person here, I’m an atheist. I will ask my Catholic friend though. But I was told a few years back that the Catholic Church revised the limbo thing…

@KatyO83 The then-Pope got rid of Limbo some years ago.

Not being Roman Catholic, or any other claimant to the "true" Catholicism, I took it as a non-event.

The One Who Is is definitely NOT like the petulant child, the Zeus-like disgrace to the notion of a loving God who opens the book of Job with boasting to the Evil One.

Whatever any received or postulated theology says about this, one need only look at the clearest written account of Who God Is--the four Gospels by those actually with him for ≈3 yrs--in order to see the actual "Good News": God is about relationship, not judgment.

Therefore, on't worry about such babies. They are loved.