{"id":3239,"date":"2010-07-28T19:55:54","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T01:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesusneedsnewpr.net\/?p=3239"},"modified":"2011-05-03T16:23:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T16:23:41","slug":"bad-news-baby-drowns-after-baptism-pg13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesusneedsnewpr\/2010\/07\/bad-news-baby-drowns-after-baptism-pg13.html","title":{"rendered":"BAD NEWS: Baby drowns after baptism (PG13)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SOURCE<\/a>: A priest in eastern Europe has been accused of drowning a baby boy as he baptised him.<\/em><\/p>\n

Police are investigating Father Valentin for accidential homicide after witnesses at the ceremony said the priest did not cover the baby’s mouth during the ritual, The Sun<\/em> newspaper reports.<\/em><\/p>\n

Father Valentin had denied being responsible for the baby’s death during the baptism in Moldova.<\/em><\/p>\n

The six-week-old baby died on the way to hospital and an autopsy found he had drowned, the baby’s dad Dumitru Gaidau told Romania’s Publica TV.<\/em><\/p>\n

Mr Gaidau, 36, said his son was clearly in distress during the ceremony.<\/em><\/p>\n

“He couldn’t inhale, his face turned blue and he was foaming at the mouth. He [the priest] said we should not interrupt this their ritual,” he said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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What a sad and empty story.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Where’s God in this kind of story?<\/div>\n
Seriously? Where is he?<\/div>\n
I see a priest whose life has been changed forever.<\/div>\n
I see devastated parents who believed they were doing the right thing, the holy thing… but instead, they lose a child. A CHILD.<\/div>\n
And I see a lifeless baby.<\/div>\n
But where’s God? I don’t see him.<\/div>\n
I don’t get these kinds of stories.<\/div>\n
These are the kind of stories that force me to ask God questions that I once felt guilty about asking.<\/div>\n
Usually they contain expletives.<\/div>\n
And they’re the kind I yell.<\/div>\n
And I no longer feel guilty about asking these questions.<\/div>\n
The alternative is for me to sit around and wonder whether or not I’m wasting my time believing that somebody is actually listening to me ask questions. So I always suppose that God would rather me talk, ask, get angry as opposed to not saying anything at all.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
But seriously God. That baby didn’t have to die.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
I’m calling bullshit.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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