Stupid things religious people say

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William Lane Craig weights in on how the "mentally retarded" people are not as vile as non-retarded people.

William Lane Craig Shocks Theologians by Rejecting Original Sin in Infants and Special Needs Children

“If you believe with Roman Catholics and Reformed and Lutheran theologians that Adam’s sin and guilt is imputed to every individual human being descended from Adam, then infants and the mentally disabled are going to also need salvation to be applied to them in some way because they carry the guilt of Adam’s sin,” said Craig in a short video posted to his ministry’s account on X.

“On the other hand, if, like me, you’re not persuaded that this doctrine is biblical, then infants and the mentally retarded are not born sinful and therefore have no sin that needs to be pardoned or forgiven,” he added.

“Jesus, I think, clearly believed that these little children were saved, were the recipients of God’s salvation,” he continued. “And that would make much better sense than, I think, saying that they were all born vile and corrupted sinners.

As reported by Protestia, Craig’s comments were seen as a denial of the doctrine of original sin, which states that all were born unto sin due to Adam’s sin.

https://www.crosswalk.com/headlines/cont...ldren.html

And while this whole discussion is mentally retarded, as all theological discussions are, WLC has a point: since mentality retarded people can not give 10% of their paycheck to the church and people like WLC to buy their way out of hell, they are either predisposed for doom or are already saved.

So when people ask, "What is so bad about people being religious?" - this is one of the reasons. Imagine how much better the world would be if people did not waste their mental power on things like finding subliminal satanic symbols in everyday things or wondering if Jesus has a grudge against "mentally retarded" people, but instead used that energy to do something useful for society.