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Example sentences for: baptism

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As the explorer Ernest Giles put it, the explorer's experience is a “baptism worse than that of fire—the baptism of no water.”
It further suggested "[i]t would be a powerful focus for healing if the Church leaders were to nominate a day when we could each reassert the commitment to basic Christian principles we made at baptism."
The woman's name is Christine York, and she was chosen for this gruesome task on the day of her birth 20 years earlier, when she was seized from her mother's arms in the hospital by a satanic nurse and given a quickie baptism with rattlesnake blood.
The tradition is connected to the baptism of St. John, and throughout Mexico, it is common to see water fights on this day, with buckets of water thrown on friends and family.
The most avid practitioners are Mormons, who believe that ancestors can be saved through posthumous baptism and have established 3,200 genealogy libraries around the world to encourage conversions.