There's no such thing as an atheist baby

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117. On baptism

One view (note that infant capacities/ incapacities are very clearly emphasized here):

http://gospelway.com/salvation/infant_baptism.php


An alternative view:

http://www.catholic.com/tracts/infant-baptism


Limbo was the afterlife that some Catholics proposed as the likely state for people who were not capable of accepting or rejecting God at the time when they died: this included both unbaptized babies, and 'heathens' who had never been exposed to the Gospel.

Here is a famous verse by Wordsworth about babies' spiritual condition: a lovely poem, but possibly questionable in its viewpoint:

'Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home:
Heaven lies about us in our infancy!'