So, I'm kinda in limbo on this whole decision...
It's not like Limbo was in the bible to start with anyway...and it's true that it was sort of conjured as a manifestation of...I don't know. An involvement strategy? Religion moves away from the personal and becomes community--baptisms? (no, seriously, I don't know. Google's not really helping me with this)
And now it's been snubbed out with a Pope-sanctioned stamp of approval and it just calls into question the arbitrary/contrary/artificial elements certain beliefs or practices have come to possess. (no offense to believers, but you have to admit the whole thing is a little ridiculous)
What does this mean to people who are firm believers of Limbo and are firm believers in infant baptisms? Are they now "wrong"? How does it feel to have a belief declared "untrue"? Do you then believe your departed child is in Limbo yet? Or have they moved on to Heaven because such a place is declared to not exist any longer? Is it really that easy?
Yet, a good number of the population denied that unbaptized babies waited in the in-between land to begin with. (Then there's always the debates on mentally challenged individuals, who are "unable" to give up their spirits entirely to God)
Pope Benedict XVI has certainly, permanently, left his mark...even though he followed quite a tough act. Although, I suppose you could say he is reinstating the terms here of the afterlife to what it was originally supposed to be.
Wax on, wax off.
OH NO. DOES THIS MEAN PIERS ANTHONY IS TOTALLY WRONG--NOW THIS FUCKS UP THE WHOLE SERIES!!! COME BACK LIMBOOOOO!!!
>___< I was bored.
Reference: Vatican Abolishes the Concept of Limbo, Seattle Times, April 21, 2007
And now it's been snubbed out with a Pope-sanctioned stamp of approval and it just calls into question the arbitrary/contrary/artificial elements certain beliefs or practices have come to possess. (no offense to believers, but you have to admit the whole thing is a little ridiculous)
What does this mean to people who are firm believers of Limbo and are firm believers in infant baptisms? Are they now "wrong"? How does it feel to have a belief declared "untrue"? Do you then believe your departed child is in Limbo yet? Or have they moved on to Heaven because such a place is declared to not exist any longer? Is it really that easy?
Yet, a good number of the population denied that unbaptized babies waited in the in-between land to begin with. (Then there's always the debates on mentally challenged individuals, who are "unable" to give up their spirits entirely to God)
Pope Benedict XVI has certainly, permanently, left his mark...even though he followed quite a tough act. Although, I suppose you could say he is reinstating the terms here of the afterlife to what it was originally supposed to be.
Wax on, wax off.
OH NO. DOES THIS MEAN PIERS ANTHONY IS TOTALLY WRONG--NOW THIS FUCKS UP THE WHOLE SERIES!!! COME BACK LIMBOOOOO!!!
>___< I was bored.
Reference: Vatican Abolishes the Concept of Limbo, Seattle Times, April 21, 2007