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Questions on infant baptism currently need to be tagged with two tags: and . This goes against the general principle that distinct topics should have their own tags, and not be inferred from the combination of tags.

  1. Is there any good reason why there shouldn't be a tag?

  2. Should it be or ? The first is simpler IMO, but the second could be a synonym.

  3. Should questions keep the or tags if they get the new tag?

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  • Searching for "infants" + "baptism" would find inappropriate questions like "Why do [denomination] forbid infants attending adult baptism ceremonies?". So I'd say that a single "infant-baptism" (or "baptism-infants" or whatever) tag would be appropriate. I suspect that such a change might even make the "infant" tag no longer needed. I also suspect than many people won't know to use the word "paedobaptism".
    – Ray Butterworth
    Commented Jan 18, 2019 at 18:38

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No, there is no reason not to.

The correct theological term is , the colloquial should be a synonym to it.

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  • Hmmm...I'm not so sure about this now. The infants tag makes no sense and I'm still far paedobaptism, but dropping baptism seems wrong.
    – Caleb Mod
    Commented Jan 3, 2019 at 11:48
  • If you exclude the infant baptism question there are still a fair number of questions on the moral capacity, sinfulness, and afterlife of infants, so I think the tag makes sense. But perhaps it could be merged with children.
    – curiousdannii Mod
    Commented Jan 3, 2019 at 11:51
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    I would usually keep baptism on these if there's room, as a high-level tag. Like how we might have both soteriology and penal-substitution on the same question.
    – Nathaniel is protesting Mod
    Commented Jan 3, 2019 at 16:11
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is probably only something someone who is looking for arguments against the practice is going to use, that's not term you're going to find sects that baptize infants using unless it's got the phrase "so called" in front of it.

I think calling it something other than really takes away from its eternal significance; Catholics believe it leaves an indelible mark on your soul regardless of the age the Sacrament was administered.

I'd prefer as the main tag, then and for the pendants among us.

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  • There's a lot of work to do with retags if you're gonna go through with this Looks like 35 questions contain the phrase "Infant Baptism", 3 contain "Baptism of Infants".
    – Peter Turner Mod
    Commented Jan 3, 2019 at 21:01
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    Protestants who baptise infants absolutely do use both infant baptism and paedobaptism to refer to their own doctrines.
    – curiousdannii Mod
    Commented Jan 3, 2019 at 22:06

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