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    Whether a man is a guilty unbeliever or an innocent belie... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Human beings beget guilty, not innocent, children.

    Whether a man is a guilty unbeliever or an innocent believer, the corruption of nature is transmitted to offspring.

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    But what about those who never commit any offense against God at all, such as those who die in infancy or those who, because of severe brain damage or some other factor, never develop into minimally rational agents? These too, according to Augustine, deserve to be condemned along with the human race as a whole. “For … the whole human race,” he insisted, “was condemned in its apostate head by a divine judgment so just that even if not a single member of the race [including, therefore, those who die in infancy] were ever saved from it, no one could rail against God’s justice” (Enchiridion, 99)....

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