Poor baby. He would still be alive today if his parents were not Christians.
(Note: this is from a Romanian site and they haven't done completely thorough job of translating the article on the English language)
(Note: this is from a Romanian site and they haven't done completely thorough job of translating the article on the English language)
Quote:Baby dies in Romania after being immersed in baptism
A six-week-old baby boy has died after his face was submerged in water several times during baptism.
The archdeacon said he spoke to the priest who baptized the newborn and he said the baby had cried during and after immersion, indicating that his vital signs were good.
However, several minutes later the baby, who was born prematurely, went floppy and he called the ambulance, he said.
The family contradicted that report and told Antena 3 that the baby stopped breathing when he was taking out of the font, and they called the emergency services.
”We wanted to christen him, and I can tell you he was crying, but the priest plunged him into water three times, and he inhaled water. The priest took him out and wiped him down. I found out from doctors that he’d inhaled 110 milliliters of water. He was bleeding from his nose and we put his head down to get out the water but he didn’t recover; his heart was beating but it was very weak,” the father, who was not named, told Monitorul de Suceava.
Emergency officials resuscitated the infant and he was taken to the St John the New Suceava County Hospital where he was put on a ventilator, hospital spokesman Dan Teodorovici said.
He suffered a cardiac arrest, and died early Monday morning.
Police have launched a manslaughter investigation, but haven’t charged anyone.
In 2010, another Orthodox priest was accused of accidentally drowning a six-week-old boy as he baptized him in in northeast Romania. [Just accused?!]
https://universul.net/baby-dies-in-roman...n-baptism/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"