Albion
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Hi albion,
I'll bite. What makes a baptism invalid that would be under the control of the person performing the baptism?
OK, here are a few possible scenarios.
The layman doing the baptism announces, with a verbal flourish, that he is baptizing the candidate into the spiritual family of the Higher Power that is acknowledged by all mankind.
Or he doesn't say anything along those lines at all, but asks if the candidate is sorry for the wrong he has done, pours water on him, and announces that by the power vested in him by the state of California that the candidate is now baptized! (to the applause of the onlookers, as it is in a wedding when the minister says that he introduces for the first time Mr. and Mrs. Joe Smith).
Its not a Christian baptism.
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