text: But the more ancient view of baptism is not washing away original sin as some sort of personal fault transmitted through conception. According to Kallistos Ware, baptism initiates a healing of the alienation within ourselves, healing the split between ourselves and others, and giving us new life in which the world is a sign of communion with God. Death, the ultimate alienation, is overcome. That, and incorporation into the community.  
  
  Exorcism serves to reject these divisions (devil is derived from the word "divide" in Greek, personalized), and does not presume that we are in cahoots with Satin. Baptism is about the promise of restoration of wholeness as we were intended to be, not because we're born outside God's love and deserve death, which describes some of the untenable and horrible distortions we were taught. If we can paw through some of the ancient writings to get to the meaning (not always easy to do), there's some good stuff in there.