An Achievement (and presumably Trophy) in the upcoming Dante's Inferno is «Bad Nanny» which is awarded when you «slaughter an undetermined number
of unbaptized infants».
And, since the sacrament of baptism is said to be the remedy for the «original sin», but renders the baptized subject to heaven or Hell, rather than the «limbo»
of the unbaptized, recommit the «original sin» to give up heaven to avoid Hell, and go to «limbo», nonexistence, like, supposedly, the animals do.
Not exact matches
They are metaphysical concepts left over from premodern, non-biblical philosophies, something Jenson called the «
unbaptized god»
of the Greeks.
This question
of identity can be important According to the 1928 Church
of England Prayer Book, the service
of Burial was not to be used for the
unbaptized.
He concluded that
unbaptized infants go to hell as a consequence
of original sin.
Among the many ironies punctuating Catholic history, one
of the more curious is the spectacle
of theologians, dedicated to expounding doctrine on the God who «is love» (1 John 4:8), insisting that infants who die
unbaptized will never see God.
Such an affront, he argues, came in the past as it comes now from that brash and
unbaptized libeler
of human reason the perennial harlequin, the votary
of the ridiculous, the extravagant, the «fanciful.»
I'm thinking
of Dante's Inferno, where you're slaughtering the little demons who are
unbaptized babies who died.
She drowned when rowing with a group
of Englischers, and her
unbaptized wayward ways mean she has surely been kept out
of heaven.