The fact is that infant baptism is death to any church. It leads people to think that they are saved because they were baptized as infants. As Dr.Grady writes in his history of the United States, ...This is the hardline Baptist position and traditional argument. I think most Baptists are familiar with this argument. However, it is not persuasive outside Baptist circles. It's more inflammatory than persuasive to paedobaptists, I think.
it provided 'that all persons of sober life and correct sentiments, without being examined s to a change of heart, might profess religion or become members of the Church,and have their children baptized, though they did not come to the Lord's table.
Within a decade of this momentous compromise, the signs of spiritual depression were everywhere to be seen,
In 1670 a decay in sprituality was very apparent...as converting work doth cease, so doth religion die away; though more insensibly, yet more irrevocably. How much is religion dying in the hearts of sincere Christians!
In 1702 Increase Mather said:'look into our pulpits and see if there is such glory there as thee once was. Look into the civil State. does Christ reign there as he once did? How many churches, how many towns are there in New England over which we may sigh and say, the glory is gone'(Grady, What hath God Wrought, p.88-89)
Infant baptism is not a harmless ritual. It lulls the church into accepting the unregenerate into her fellowship.
As for the 'militant' aspect, since Baptists are the only ones who do not baptize infants, we need to be very forthcoming in explaining why.
Even so come Lord Jesus