Can the motives for baptism make it invalid?

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If someone goes through RCIA and is baptized as an adult, but did so to be uniform with their spouse and never believed in the spirituality of the faith or the sacrament of baptism, would that make the baptism invalid? They still do not believe, and now that the marriage is over, calls the Catholic Church “evil”.
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I doubt it…people probably hadn’t full realisation of what was happening when John the B, his disciples and the Apostles were baptising in the Jordan. It was still effective.
Same goes with the other sacraments; their power doesn’t depend on personal belief.
 
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