Catholics bless silly things.
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WWII, I believe.
“Baptizing soulless not feeling entities. “
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May I ask how this is different in your view than this Catholic practice?
https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayer.php?p=198
The blessing of a vehicle.
And they practice similar silly things.
Touche’!
You apparently have no concept of the difference between a baptism and a blessing.
Baptizing is not the same as blessing in general.
Catholics bless objects for the same reasons things have been blessed from the first pages of Genesis: to thank God for His provision, to set aside objects for sacred use, and to ask God's favor:
Genesis 2:3
Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.
Deuteronomy 28:4
"Blessed shall be the offspring of your body and the produce of your ground and the offspring of your beasts, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock.
Deuteronomy 28:5
"Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl."
Isaiah 19:25
LORD of hosts has blessed, saying, "Blessed is Egypt My people, and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel My inheritance."
Exodus 23:25
Worship the Lord your God, and his blessing will be on your food and water.
Exodus 20:11
"For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.
Deuteronomy 7:13 and also 28:4
"He will love you and bless you and multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock, in the land which He swore to your forefathers to give you."
That's just what I could find in the first 10 minutes. It's bedtime now, but I assure you, if I had time I could show you how the Jews blessed times, days, and seasons; wells and mountains and the land itself (Eretz Israel); bread, wine, the work of their hands; as well as the Temple and its furnishings, the Ark of he Covenant and what it contained; flocks and herds and tents and people.
Yes, Catholics bless homes and pets, wedding rings and caskets and burial sites, prayerbooks and icons, cars and bicycles and boats and racehorses, fields and orchards, firehouses and firetrucks, tanks and aircraft carriers and weapons and military medals; wedding gowns and marital beds: those are just some of the things I have seen blessed.
I think we got that from the Jews. The Jews were justly famous for having special blessings for everything! Their mouths were filled with blessing!
As for Baptism, that's another thing entirely. It's a Sacrament. That can't be conferred on anyone but a person.
Although that can be extended in an analogical sense as well. History speaks of "The Baptism of Kievan Rus," "the Baptism of Armenia," etc.--- the baptismal ingathering of those nations into the fold of Christ.
But Baptism itself --- as one of the Seven Sacraments ---is for a person. It is not in the same general category as blessings for other created things.
Catholics bless silly things.
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WWII, I believe.