The phrase
"unbaptized babies" refers to babies who have not gone through a religious ceremony called baptism, which is often done in certain Christian traditions.
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I'm not interested in defending Bell's book in its entirety — I thought some of his exegesis was sloppy — but the questions he raises about the destiny un-evangelized are not that different from the questions traditionally raised by Baptists about the assumption within other Christian traditions that
unbaptized babies spend eternity in hell.
I'm thinking of Dante's Inferno, where you're slaughtering the little demons who are
unbaptized babies who died.
I am happy to admit that there are exceptions, but how often has one met otherwise intelligent people who have dismissed the whole Christian Faith because, for instance, they can not believe that the first chapter of Genesis is true to science, that Jonah was swallowed by a whale, that
unbaptized babies go to hell, or that heaven is above the bright blue sky!
During EA's «Naughty and Nice» holiday press event yesterday, Executive Producer Jonathan Knight revealed that Dante's Inferno will reward players for
killing unbaptized babies.