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| Limbo by follower of Hieronymus Bosch via Wikipedia |
When I was a kid in Catholic school, the nuns taught us that limbo was where babies went who died before they were baptized. Unlike everyone else in limbo, they didn't get tortured. They just didn't ever, for all "eternity", get to see god. For the grown-ups, limbo, or purgatory as the nuns called it, was the same as hell except that it lasted one second less than forever. Kids are expected to believe grownups, especially ones in long black robes but come on! One second less than forever? WTF?!
I just looked up limbo at Wikipedia. The "official" definition is more of the same patriarchal, hair-splitting, legalese bullshit. My gods religion sucks. It's fantasy at it's very worst. Yuck.
2 comments:
Babies need to be baptized ASAP! We need rules for this, and some punishments--to use some babies as EXAMPLES (what we have here ... is failure to COMMUNICATE ...) and if a few babies have to float around in eternity, well, then, that's just the price we have to pay.
This stuff makes NO SENSE. Not even metaphorically. And the Catholics have already thrown a lot of stuff out, which just makes me believe the stuff that remains is, well, in limbo.
It's insane. It's a failure to communicate, a failure to think, a failure to speak up. It's one big fucking cluster fuck! You're right. It doesn't even make sense metaphorically. In fact, it seems the depth of the spell a doctrine casts is inversely proportional to the sense it makes.
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