The fight over Darwin - Teaching evolution in schools

[Final-Fan]

Kasz216 said:

Final-Fan said:

Reasonable said:

The Ghost of RubangB said:
They actually taught me evolution at my private Catholic high school. They also taught me that if a baby got hit by a car before it was baptized, it would go to Purgatory instead of Heaven. Very mixed messages.

I always felt the unbaptised kids got it rough - your parents are a bit lazy, you're a model child and get straight A's at school, help old ladies cross roads, etc....  you get horribly killed, and God's response... Purgatory for you kid!  For eternity!  Or did they get a second chance?  My memory is hazy on that point?

I'd had the impression that people who got sent to Purgatory were only there for a while, until they "paid off" whatever sins landed them there.  I.e., it's not eternal like Hell -- you'd eventually get into Heaven.  [edit:  Godly detention], if you will. 

But then, that's only the impression I got.  I may well be mistaken. 

[edit:  I like Reasonable's analogy better than my original one.]

I always thought that it was you were in purgatory until enough people prayed for you... and that's how it was "payed off".

Judging by Wikipedia's entry (yes, yes), I'd say it looks like prayer reduces the sentence, but is more of a supplement to the main way of "working it off" through suffering in Purgatory.