Making Light:  Misanthropy at the grimy end of winter ::: March 25, 2005, 07:37 PM

James D. Macdonald:

  Furthermore, you don't just give up being Catholic.  Baptism puts a
  permanent mark on your soul.  No matter what you do, or don't do,
  believe, or don't believe, Baptism remains.

Speak for your own soul, mister.  Circumcision leaves a permanent
mark; my baptism washed off just fine.  No matter what you or anyone
may care to believe.

I realize your remarks were in the context of people presuming to
judge whether someone else was lapsed.  I don't judge whether she died
a Catholic on the basis of her history, and I equally stand against
such a judgement made by others.  If it is a doctrine of someone's
faith that she was or was not Catholic, then that is only relevant to
her faith if she believed that doctrine.