A sentient, intelligent alien could make the decision to join the church.
A goat can not.
True, we baptize infants who don’t make the decision themselves, but it is up to them if they want to cultivate their role in the Church during their lives.
AhOOHGA!!!
Wrong!
My goats decide things all the time: Eat or poop?
Poop or eat???
Act repentant when caught in the barn yet again; tearing things up, or not???
Uh... scratch that last thing.