baptism, n.Definitions

Baptism is a "get out of Hell free" card.

Baptism is religious intimidation through drowning

Baptism is a spiritual sheep dip.

Baptism is hydrocephalic abracadabra.

Baptism is the physical image of spiritual cleanliness, the separating of the true individual from the excreta of original sin.

Baptism is the vehicle to heaven, the public agent of the kingdom of adoption.

Baptism is a sacred rite of such efficacy that he who finds himself in heaven without having undergone it will be unhappy forever.