(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.
Christian sects such as the Bogomils and the Cathars, professed reincarnation and other gnostic beliefs. This had been declared heretical since 553 A.D. by the church because it was believed to contradict the doctrine of "corporeal resurrection" and undermine the need for Christ's "redemptive sacrifices".
Not altogether surprisingly the Albigensian Crusade was launched against them by Pope Innocent III.
