Infant baptism

[Gabriella13]

Hi everyone,

I am in the process of deciding whether to baptise my child in CofE or a russian orthodox church. I am russian and my husband is British. Neither of us are overly religious but I would like my baby to be protected. I was wondering if you could help me think of negatives/positive of each religion in terms of living in the UK. I know that some schools prefer if a child has been baptised in CofE etc....

Thanks for your replies, G

I can't think of any non-religious benefits to infant baptism unless you are particularly keen on them going to the local C/E school

There are other non-religious and more legally binding ways of providing 'Godparents' or carers after your death, if that's what you mean by your baby being protected?

We got our DC 'done' as we wanted them to be publicly accepted as a member of the church family - especially DS as DH had been away a lot during my pregnancy and the church community had really supported and welcomed the baby

I don't understand about being 'protected'. My dh and I very different religions - my beliefs don't involve any church - my dh's involves alot - from birth.

DS almost 4 and not baptised as I felt he should know more before he decides ie try before you buy - nothing has happened and I've been told that a catholic school wouldn't touch my ds as he wasn't baptised at birth - agh - odd give catholic schools have to accept a small proportion of non catholics but my son with his catholic background I feel (hope I'm wrong) would never get in now.

depends what you think - if it's about schools - do the school thing - if it's about spirituality and faith do the spirituality and faith thing.