📝 I don’t want my child baptised

By regdoorJ • Score: 6 • April 11, 2025 9:54 PM


So first of all, I live in the UK where in my work/social sphere, the majority of my peers are atheist/not religious.

My beautiful fiancé and I have a almost 5 month old and we couldn’t be (generally) more hapoy and aligned.

All but on the point of Christening/Baptism.

She was ‘brought up’ to an extent to be Catholic by her mother who never forced religion on her, her Dad not partaking, and my fiancé choosing not follow the church after a certain age.

But she’s still not sure she doesn’t believe in something, her Mum goes to church every week, and it can’t harm to protect our son by getting him baptised - in their view.

My view is that I absolutely do not believe in God, accept and appreciate some of the values in instills, but ultimately don’t want to advocate my child believing a man in the clouds explains the things we can’t explain.

There’s lots more backstory to both our belief systems I could go into, but I feel like I’m ultimately the AH because ‘What’s the harm im getting him baptised - just incase’.

This goes against my whole belief system, but would I be the AH if I pushed hard for the baptism not to happen? Tell me Reddit.

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