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    zombologist Senior Member doc_bean's Avatar
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    Default All babies go to heaven !

    says vatican


    Well, perhaps I'm going to have to revise my opinion on Pope Benedict a bit. I would have figured he would be more the type to damn all those little souls (well, damn to limbo at least) and reinforce the importance of baptism to get into heaven.

    This would also mean that non-christian/non-catholic babies can get into heaven, which leaves open the door for a (more) secular form of Catholicism, just when I was afraid Benedict wanted to take us back to the dark ages.

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    Are there many Belgians left who take the Vatican serious?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Adrian II
    Are there many Belgians left who take the Vatican serious?
    Errr...probably not.

    Though West Flanders still has an active Catholic community, the influence of the Vatican itself is minor I believe. In the rest of the country it's mostly the older people who still go to church. There are some 'new' younger believers, but protestantism seems to be more popular with those (they tend to be alternative types, so I guess they'd want an alternative religion too).

    Of course, I'm from Antwerp (the region anyway), a traditional secular/atheist haven, so I might have a wrong picture of the rest of the country. (see my other post in the 'speak Durch... ' thread on how isolationist we tend to be.)
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    Good, now that they've had that question lifted off our consciences we can all go back to relaxing.

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    not that I give a damn...

    but I find it funny how they just change their minds from one day to another....

    I mean....wasn´t the former position of the church supposed to be God´s position?

    so what happen?....did he call them in the bat-phone and say he changed his mind or what???
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    bat-phone! ROFLOL
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    I thought this has been practice for the last couple of decades?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ronin
    not that I give a damn...

    but I find it funny how they just change their minds from one day to another....
    Theologians have been studying the issue at least as far back as 1984 before they came to this conclusion.

    Quote Originally Posted by Ronin
    I mean....wasn´t the former position of the church supposed to be God´s position?

    so what happen?....did he call them in the bat-phone and say he changed his mind or what???
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    Quote Originally Posted by doc_bean
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