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Christians.....why baptize?

That's it. My Grandfather (an amazing man) really wants me to have my boy baptized and I (not real religious) don't see the point. I mean I have studied Christianity a fair amount and I consider the whole baptism thing one of the "man made" artifacts of the religion. Or one of the more palatable rules or laws carried over from the OT because it was palatable (as opposed to laws about stoning people that work on Sundays etc.. which were discarded).

Where am I wrong?

OK, I didn't really get that out right. I view it as a quaint symbolic ritual with no "magical" (for lack of a better word) efffects on the "salvation" of an innocent child.
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