Posthuman Blues

Closing the doors of limbo: Theologians say it was hypothesis

Many Catholics grew up thinking limbo -- the place where babies who have died without baptism spend eternity in a state of "natural happiness" but not in the presence of God -- was part of Catholic tradition.

Instead, it was a hypothesis -- a theory held out as a possible way to balance the Christian belief in the necessity of baptism with belief in God's mercy.

(Via The Anomalist.)

Meanwhile, back in the real world . . .