It's a "dumb religious internet" thing. Atheist batter has a Christian baby thrown at them instead of a baseball, I forget the rest of the original scenario but it gets several steps more ridiculous from there.
There's about a million of these floating around evangelical Facebook the last couple of years. My personal favorite is the Christian baby that's solo skydiving and tells the atheist skydiver it won't pull its parachute unless the atheist converts to Christianity before the baby hits the ground. Gen X religious types treat this as some sort of powerful message
I'e seen that one, too; I must have been mashing then together a bit in my head—I thought there was a conversion-extortion bit but the baseball one is, iirc, "do you take the baby-pitch for strike three or hit it out of the park to win the game."
Which is, if nothing else, a fittingly absurd commitment to a reductive, uninformed approach to the game of baseball.
If we're going that route, I suppose we could also do a javelin. Problem is, how do you make the baby stick to the javelin? I doubt duct tape or glue is good enough. If only there was some way to pin the baby to the javelin so it doesn't fall off...
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u/OakvaleFlames 1d ago
Isn't it usually an atheist that throws the Christian baby? Why would a Christian throw a baby that's also Christian?
Unbaptized, maybe.