• PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPM
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    Explanation: The first explicitly Christian Emperor, Constantine I, waited, as was common for Christian converts of the time, until his deathbed to be formally baptized into the faith. The thinking of this was so that there would be as little time to sin and fuck up the whole, ‘new life, new you’ schtick you had going before you got to the pearly gates.

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      The thinking of this was so that there would be as little time to sin and fuck up the whole, ‘new life, new you’ schtick you had going before you got to the pearly gates.

      God HATES this simple trick to CHEAT the afterlife!

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        God LEGALLY cannot deny you entrance to heaven if you say “I was just baptized before I died”

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          I love that people think they can out think an omniscient being. Talk about hubris.