You don't have a soul, so you can't be baptized. All animals are like that. I think it's unfair and sometimes I don't believe it. After all, what would heaven be without birds or dogs or horses? And what about trees and flowers? They don't have souls either. Does that mean heaven looks like a cement parking lot? I suppose this is what the nuns call a theological problem.

📖 Nancy Farmer

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"You don't have a soul, so you can't be baptized. All animals are like that. I think it's unfair and sometimes I don't believe it," the narrator questions the idea that only humans have souls and can be baptized. They express a sense of unfairness about animals being excluded from spiritual considerations, wondering what heaven would be like without creatures like birds, dogs, and horses, or even trees and flowers.

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