Only if it is insubstantial and/or not true. But it is neither, And I did not say that superficial water application was not both desired, and required as taking a beginning step of obedience into one's submission to Christ and His appointed ministers. I am saying that it cannot save, which is a firm opinion regarding the application of exegesis to The Christ's ordinance.
"The Straw Man fallacy is committed when a person simply ignores a person's actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of that position."