@Walter Hinteler,
Walter Hinteler wrote:
Foofie wrote:Then many U.S. Jews are Catholics, due to being baptized in hospital at birth, since an infant, in an emergency, can be baptized by a lay person (aka, nurse). If a Jewish infant got sick and died, a caring nurse did not want the infant to rot in limbo. So, one can think of U.S. Jews as a sect of Catholics?
Under Canon Law everyone baptised as described there is a Roman Catholic. I think that such is similar within all churches where baptism is a sacrament.
However, if the baptized infant then is raised in a Jewish home, subscribing to Judaism, then what do you call the infant/child/adult? A lapsed Catholic? An apostate Catholic? A hostage Jew? A hostage Catholic?
I assume I was baptized when/where I was born, by a nurse most likely, since I would think it was done out of caring for my not rotting in limbo, if I became sick and died. If there is a Heaven, I would prefer to be in a part of Heaven that was not the Catholic section. Can I request that at the Pearly Gates? Many Catholics have this annoying habit, in my opinion, of often boasting about how humble (aka, poor) their early lives were. Can I request the Protestant section of Heaven? Or, is their a section of Heaven for Atheists?
Then there is the whole problem about my wanting to be in the American section of Heaven. I really don't care to hear foreign languages. Especially French. It is so much easier in Judaim, since they do not claim any authentic knowledge of Salvation, other than the Orthodox belief in Resurrection at the End of Times.