Christian baptism seems to be an inverse stoning. Your friends (enemies) gather around you and give praise (insults). You are submersed in water (killed) as a means of entrance (expulsion) from the community. There is of course deeper reasoning but it seems striking.
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Replying to @Ahimsa_Satya_
This makes some sense for credobaptists but most Christians are paedobaptists.
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Replying to @Jed_Trott
Good point. Interesting anthropologically though and certainly applies to first generation believers. I was raised credobaptist as Schwarzenau known as the Old German Baptist in the US, but my mother was Catholic.
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Replying to @Ahimsa_Satya_
You can argue that paedobaptism is a stronger method of group identification than credo in the sense that I care more about whether my kids belong to the community of God than whether I do. I was raised (and still am) a Presbyterian in a conservative denomination.
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I’m not one to argue the issue but to me ritual needs to adhere very closely to the original occasion but Christianity is unique in that the ritual started prior to the imitated event in some sense. Baptism seems like circumcision to me.
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