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In baptism, “following” is more important than “believing.” The latter is done easily, and singly, from a recliner. The former is communal; it requires putting some skin in the game. Once upon a time, that’s what baptism meant – a risk-your-assets conviction. It is, in a very real sense, an act of sedition against a disordered, dismembering world that believes eating, or being eaten, are the only options.