I like it!!!
Chaim Mattis Keller
Why, thankee very much!
Other opinions?
Very cute. I like the * peyos * 
Zev Steinhardt
Eeep! Lissa my suggestion was not meant to be a criticism of your OP, which you explained was a response to cmkeller. Sorry if you took it that way.
picmr
Dopers of the Jewish Faith, unite!
;j
Umm, It COULB be, but lots of religions had ritual baptism. Mithranism has baptism in bull blood, several of the Babylonian/Sumerian religios had baptisms in the holy river, as did some Egyptian religions Since the ritual Jewish baptism is almost entirely for females, it does not seem as if Christianity borrowed it, here. It appears that John the Baptist, a member of an unusual Jewish sect, is primarily responsible.
When the Temple was standing, the mikveh was also for males.
And the fact that other religions had an immersion in water is pretty much beside the point. Hard to imagine ol’ John the Baptist taking on a pagan Babylonian custom directly.
I was just trying to track the obvious, from ritual immersion (mikveh)in Judaism, to John the Baptist, and thence to Christianity… undergoing significant change at various stages in the evolutionary process.