Baptism should be by choice and not forced

Catholic theologian Vincent Twomey recently commented that the reason his church had fallen from its perch was because it had stopped thinking.

He didn’t indicate whether this happened by accident or design or at what point the rot had set in, leaving to listeners to decide whether this presence of mind ever existed in the first place.

Would Twomey’s revelation explain why up to the recent past we remained in a state of near stagnation because of duress placed upon our thoughts and actions?