(August 30, 2024 at 7:10 am)Gwaithmir Wrote: I'm surprised that the Catholic Church never came up with a doctrine saying that the souls of dead, unbaptized babies weren't simply recycled and sent to newly conceived babies.
They did! Origen appears to have believed that reincarnation made perfect sense, and that souls were guided to bodies based on past deeds, the souls past extending to the very beginning of creation. Justinian appears to have been the guy who shitcanned this one, at the prompting of his wife, or so the story goes. Collateral damage in a political claim to the eastern church.
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