The Catholic Church teaches that everyone is born into the world with the sin of Adam, who is a symbolic character in a metaphorical narrative. Baptism is the sacrament that washes away these sins.
I prefer to believe that each child born into the world is born with the dignity of being human. Tis dignity can’t be taken away, but only given away. It’s those who attempt to take away another’s dignity are those who have then given up theirs.
It is then that baptism comes into play. Baptism is the means by which those who taken the dignity of others acknowledge this and ask to be cleansed.
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