When someone makes a religious argument I generally feel it is a red herring to argue about religion. I live in the United States where our constitution explicitly protects religious freedom. You are free to believe whatever you want to believe but I am under no obligations to agree with you or follow your religion. For instance, if I am not a Muslim I do not have to follow their religious rules. That is not saying it is bad to be Muslim, it is just not my religion if I am not a Muslim.
This particular argument, however, brings up the fact that even within specific religions there are multiple interpretations of that religion. I also find it funny when people think the problem with Adult Babies is that they are not Christian, when the fact is the majority of Adult Babies in the United States ARE Christians, and there are multiple forums just for Christian Adult Babies.
As I am anonymous I am not going to disclose my beliefs here. I think the following quote from CS Lewis is a very good one. I have seen it paraphrased many times but the full quote is even better, and I think it can be appreciated by Adult Babies of any religious persuasion.
Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
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