VATICAN CITY - Vatican theologians are leaning toward revising centuries-old teaching that babies who die without baptism go to limbo instead of heaven, officials said Friday.

“All of us have hope for the babies” that they will go to heaven, under the revised thinking on limbo, said the Rev. Luis Ladaria, a Jesuit who is secretary-general of the Vatican’s International Theological Commission.

Catholics have long believed that children who die without being baptized still have original sin and are thus excluded from heaven.

Theologians have taught that such children enjoy an eternal state of perfect natural happiness, commonly called limbo, but have no vision of God, and are described as “being in crisis.”

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God does, ya silly goof!

It's all part of that "Plan" of his. It all makes sense, if you know his plan.

I will un-destroy my invention that I have hidden from the world.

Behold, the Limbo-View! it's a device that lets you see the babies that are currently in Limbo!
Click on the device (which i clevely disguised as an icon) to see one of the Limbo babies...

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quote Originally posted by FieroRumor: God does, ya silly goof! It's all part of that "Plan" of his. It all makes sense, if you know his plan....................

..................or "the will of men" decide to "alter" it's meanings.

When we find intelligent life on other planets, will our Bible (Gods word) be changed to include them?
Oh, wait, they will have thier own religion!
I hope it don't say something bad about us, or describe us as being "unclean", "unworthy", "pure evil" or "not of God"!
What if thiers says,"Arms & legs are the Sign of The Beast"?!

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funny stuff. who makes these rules? guys who want your money.
money cant buy happiness, but it can buy you space in heavan
limbo, huh? maybe this were the Aztecs & Eskimos went too
such silliness
heavan, purgutory, limbo, hell
oh no! the boogie man will get you!
burn witch burn
just keep eating it up, dummies
doesnt the bible have the answer?
I think it do, and the answer is THEY ARE DOOMED
hell's fires are fueled by baby fat
but, noone wants to hear that, so they made up the magic water treatment

Check with the Later Day Saint's I think they have a Special Deal on that Limbo thing?

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quote Originally posted by Pyrthian: funny stuff. who makes these rules? guys who want your money. money cant buy happiness, but it can buy you space in heavan limbo, huh? maybe this were the Aztecs & Eskimos went too such silliness heavan, purgutory, limbo, hell oh no! the boogie man will get you! burn witch burn just keep eating it up, dummies doesnt the bible have the answer? I think it do, and the answer is THEY ARE DOOMED hell's fires are fueled by baby fat but, noone wants to hear that, so they made up the magic water treatment

Can I get that in English?

Spell check is your friend .


I don't buy into religion, and as such, whomever makes the rules ceases to be of importance.

Don't ya know it's the man?

Babies can go to Hell... ugly alien-like creatures!

The funny thing is the Pope and all his followers are worshipping someone else's God... a God who (according to the Old Testament) doesn't even give a rat's ass about onyone but the Jews. You see, the Jews are the "chosen people". I find that to be hilariously ironic.

What's even more ironic is what the Jews were chosen for. IMO, they are the punchline to God's practical joke. They consciously traded physical slavery for spiritual slavery. Now their souls are enslaved to God. And they consider that as a good thing!

But back to the original question: all those rules are made by people... people who enjoy exerting control over others.