My son just got baptized about a week ago. Splashing him with magic water wasn't a big enough deal to me to start the fight it would have turned into. I just made my objections known to my wife and went along with it. I figured I'd save my energy for when he's old enough to understand what's going on.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
