#god the discourse
I love the latest controversy in the Catholic church! Some priests haven’t been doing baptism right and because they decided those are all void they gotta deal with the implication they sent people to hell as a bit of a whoopsie.
My understanding is that the priest was criticized for saying “we” instead of “I” during the baptism, which took him by surprise because he had been doing that the entire time he’s been a priest, and that led to every baptism he’s ever performed being declared invalid.
Then other priests started to come forward saying that they also had been saying “we” instead of “I”, and therefore all their baptisms don’t count.
Then people started to look back at videos of their own baptisms, and now multiple priests have discovered that their own baptism was never valid in the first place, therefore they have never been *really* Christian, and therefore have never been priests, and everything they’ve done in their entire career was meaningless.
And the reason they have to say “I” and not “we” is because the baptism is really being performed by Actual Jesus Christ, not by a “we” of any sort, literal or figurative. And you know what that means?
This whole thing is happening because people weren’t using Jesus’s preferred pronouns.
I’m still not getting it. The whole sentence is “I baptize you in the name of the father, and of the son, and of the holy spirit.” So we’re already accepting that the person doing the baptizing is not god, but invoking his authority.
It’s because you’re channeling Jesus when you baptize. So the priest is actually Jesus in that moment.
Also, you don’t go to hell if you aren’t baptized. They changed the rules.
