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Simone Weil entirely rejects any application of the church or of “its” baptism to her. What she says of the church is very clear, concerning doctrine: “to add dogma to this conception of life, without being forced to by indisputable evidence would have seemed to me like a lack of honesty” . The more Simone Weil rejects the church and its baptism the closer she comes to an intellectual assent of it. In another one of these dual moments of hers she says “the sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it ” Meaning that the more she critiques it and the more she rejects it the closer she actually comes to it in that so much of her mind is caught up with contemplation of these things that she cannot but help to consume it. This compulsion is voiced by her on page 67 in the Spiritual autobiography when she says that “Christianity is primarily the religion of slaves and that slaves cannot help belonging to it, and I among others.<ref>Simone Weil, Spiritual Autobiography (collection of letters between her and an anonymous Catholic Preist) pp67 </ref> ”

Simone Weil entirely rejects any application of the church or of “its” baptism to her. What she says of the church is very clear, concerning doctrine: “to add dogma to this conception of life, without being forced to by indisputable evidence would have seemed to me like a lack of honesty” . The more Simone Weil rejects the church and its baptism the closer she comes to an intellectual assent of it. In another one of these dual moments of hers she says “the sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it ” Meaning that the more she critiques it and the more she rejects it the closer she actually comes to it in that so much of her mind is caught up with contemplation of these things that she cannot but help to consume it. This compulsion is voiced by her on page 67 in the Spiritual autobiography when she says that “Christianity is primarily the religion of slaves and that slaves cannot help belonging to it, and I among others.<ref>Simone Weil, Spiritual Autobiography (collection of letters between her and an anonymous Catholic Preist) pp67 </ref> ”