(June 1, 2015 at 1:21 pm)QuarkDriven Wrote: I heard a catholic say today, babies are narcissistic...Feed me, give me the bottle, carry me.. and thats one of the reasons they need to be baptized... wtf??? yeah.. too far gone...
It is probably a rationalization to try to justify the preexisting belief that babies need to be baptized. Much of what people say regarding their reasoning is that way. They start with a conclusion, and then look for reasons to justify it.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.