# Recovering ex-Catholics share your strategies **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [May 5, 2006, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recovering-ex-catholics-share-your-strategies/355519 "2006-05-05T12:19:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recovering-ex-catholics-share-your-strategies/355519/21 "2006-05-07T15:34:14Z")
> [@Valteron](#): > > When you mention Limbo, you bring up one of the most amazing things about religious belief. For example, the Jehovah’s Witnesses have predicted the end of the world about 10 times in the last 100 years. And when it fails to happen, they do not seem to lose any support!!! > > The Catholic Church told me when I was a kid about Limbo, a place to which unbaptized babies went, because they could not enter Heaven without being baptised, but since they were innocent of all sin the could not go to Hell or Purgatory since their was nothing to purge! So they went to limbo. Sort of a nice place where they did not suffer, but were not as happy as if they went to Heaven. > > But guess what? A Ctholic recently told me that the doctrine of Limbo has now been abandoned. Really? How is this possible? Was the Church lying? Or mistaken? > > Might they be lying or mistaken about Purgatory? Or Heaven or Hell? But for some reason, Catholics just keep on going to Mass and giving them money. Go figure! ROFL, yeah, it’s weird, isn’t it. I remember hearing about Limbo too, but I can’t remember EVER learning where the idea came from. It just was. By the way, it was explained to us, exactly as you described it (Limbo). The babies can’t get to heaven (unbaptized) but can’t go to purgatory or hell either (because they were innocents). Sending newborn infants to hell, or sending “heathens” (those who never had a chance to hear “Good News”) would sure as shit blow away the concept of a loving and merciful God. And what about the zillions of people who lived and died in all those years before Jesus arrived? They go to hell for the high crime of poor timing and bad luck? There are too many holes in the claim that all unbaptized people are roasting in hell. I better stop. Every question would lead to so many other related questions. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recovering-ex-catholics-share-your-strategies/355519.md?page=1)