re: #92 moderatelyradicalliberal

It’s still an extension of the horrific idea that anyone who hasn’t been baptized can’t get into heaven. Especially, when you consider how high infant mortality was when the doctrine was first introduced.

Catholic Heaven is sort of a closed shop, though actually there is an out for naturally virtuous non-Catholics. The medieval church sometimes talked of “Saint Plato”, and there is a church in Venice named “Santo Moise” (Holy Moses).
The virtuous heathens (precious few) were in the first pre-Christ Limbo, and the latecomers got slots in the second.