Do retards and the chronically dumb go to Heaven?
When someone who has never encountered the Catholic church dies, do they go to hell, like any one who rejected the Catholic church would, even though they never got the chance for redemption?
Outlined there is the "hypothetical tribesman" problem. The official Catholic line, decided on at the Vatican II conference, is that the hypothetical tribesman isn't damned, God makes him a special case. Now, that works fine (in theory) for people who don't have any contact with Christianity. What about the mildly retarded and the chronically stupid though? What happens to the people who are too stupid or impaired to understand such concepts of love and hate, of sinning and so forth? Are they granted instant access to Heaven?
I don't really see how this supposed "God" figure is at all fair if he creates beings that are going straight to Heaven but with no concept of the significance of their current and (hypothetical) future situation(s). Or do they suddenly become cured and intelligent upon entering the pearly gates? Again, something I find to be rather unfair and illogical.
Religion is bullshit, but feel free to discuss this.
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