If they genuinely believe in christian theology; original sin, immortal soul, the need to be baptized in order to be saved and go to heaven, then yes this guy is 100% correct. No matter what horrible things they did to them, the fact is that they made it possible for these children to go to heaven.
Then end logic of those beliefs have horrible consequences
I wish more people would talk about far-right ideologies this way. The true mask off fash are smarter than conservatives and liberals, and their ideology is largely internally consistent. They start with different very basic assumptions about what is valuable, what things are good in and of themselves, and what things are bad in and of itself. And a large portion of that comes from a fundamentalist Christian theology-based ethics. For example if God says being gay is bad, it just is bad. If a fetus is endowed with a soul, it is a person, and "killing" it for any reason is not just murder but murder of a completely innocent baby. There is no argument against that. What you have to argue is that their entire system of ethics is wrong. And that's hard to do.
In Catholic theology, it's explicitly stated that we can't know for certain who is saved, and that salvation can come without external knowledge of Jesus (the hope for universalism isn't heretical even, as long as you don't claim actual knowledge).
Since Christ died for all, and since all men are in fact called to one and the same destiny, which is divine, we must hold that the Holy Spirit offers to all the possibility of being made partakers, in a way known to God, of the Paschal mystery.' Every man who is ignorant of the Gospel of Christ and of his Church, but seeks the truth and does the will of God in accordance with his understanding of it, can be saved.
That is supposed to ward off this kind of nightmare fuel, but unfortunately, the Catholic Church is deeply broken and warped by the fash infesting it.
This is what scares me about the religious.
If they genuinely believe in christian theology; original sin, immortal soul, the need to be baptized in order to be saved and go to heaven, then yes this guy is 100% correct. No matter what horrible things they did to them, the fact is that they made it possible for these children to go to heaven.
Then end logic of those beliefs have horrible consequences
I wish more people would talk about far-right ideologies this way. The true mask off fash are smarter than conservatives and liberals, and their ideology is largely internally consistent. They start with different very basic assumptions about what is valuable, what things are good in and of themselves, and what things are bad in and of itself. And a large portion of that comes from a fundamentalist Christian theology-based ethics. For example if God says being gay is bad, it just is bad. If a fetus is endowed with a soul, it is a person, and "killing" it for any reason is not just murder but murder of a completely innocent baby. There is no argument against that. What you have to argue is that their entire system of ethics is wrong. And that's hard to do.
As someone born in a Evangelical family that watched fox news daily I can say this is about right.
I think the only bible verse this article is in tune with is Exodus 20:7
In Catholic theology, it's explicitly stated that we can't know for certain who is saved, and that salvation can come without external knowledge of Jesus (the hope for universalism isn't heretical even, as long as you don't claim actual knowledge).
Since Christ died for all, and since all men are in fact called to one and the same destiny, which is divine, we must hold that the Holy Spirit offers to all the possibility of being made partakers, in a way known to God, of the Paschal mystery.' Every man who is ignorant of the Gospel of Christ and of his Church, but seeks the truth and does the will of God in accordance with his understanding of it, can be saved.
That is supposed to ward off this kind of nightmare fuel, but unfortunately, the Catholic Church is deeply broken and warped by the fash infesting it.