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And what about children born to Catholics? Wouldn't they be considered as having been "forced" into the Faith since they weren't given any other choice?
"forced conversion" is an oxymoron.
Quote from: MalleusAnd what about children born to Catholics? Wouldn't they be considered as having been "forced" into the Faith since they weren't given any other choice? Every day is a choice to take up our cross and follow Christ, and live in the Faith, or follow the man of sin and be lovers of the world. Just because a person is born into the Catholic Faith doesn't automatically guarantee their staying in the Faith and salvation.
Quote from: MalleusAnd what about children born to Catholics? Wouldn't they be considered as having been "forced" into the Faith since they weren't given any other choice?You've been listening to Protestants who reject infant baptism, haven't you.No. This is not a "forced conversion". This is the giving your children the greatest gift of faith you can possibly give. Calling infant baptism a "force conversion" is like saying it is child abuse to "force" your child to eat his vegetables and keep his room clean. It's like "forcing" your baby to wear a diaper or "forcing" your child to go to school or be polite to his grandmother. Honestly.A "forced conversion" would be, as you said, requiring a person to accept baptism under the pain of death or some other terrible consequence. By Church and Divine law, however, this would not be a true conversion and the individual would not be a Christian.
CANON XIV.-If any one saith, that those who have been thus baptized when children, are, when they have grown up, to be asked whether they will ratify what their sponsors promised in their names when they were baptized; and that, in case they answer that they will not, they are to be left to their own will; and are not to be compelled meanwhile to a Christian life by any other penalty, save that they be excluded from the participation of the Eucharist, and of the other sacraments, until they repent; let him be anathema.