Cupertino said:
2) Other brand? Probably most Feeneyites insist on physical water even to say an Angel will do it covertly at least a moment before death even if other humans can't witness it.
And if that doesn't show people their literal-mindedness and scruples, I don't know what does.
I can understand how you feel, since you don't know the difference between, baptism of desire of the catechumen, implicit desire to be a baptized Catholic, implicit faith, and invincible ignorance. To you it's just "literal mindedness".
Again the diffrence between all those DIFFERENT derivatives of BOD, is like the difference between lightning and lightning bug. One is harmless and the other will kill you.
"Fools rush in where wise men fear to thread".