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[quote=Anonymous]I'm a non-believer and DH is a go-to-church-on-Christmas-only-because-it's-important-to-my-mom kind of Christian.  MIL is religious and is very involved with her church (my own family identifies as Christian, but they don't attend any formal church or anything).  MIL's church practices infant baptism.  I do not want to baptize my baby because I am not ok with vowing to raise him in the ways of any particular church.  I'd rather him be exposed to faiths/religion in a less formal manner and allow him to choose or not choose religion when he's older.

Has anyone been in this situation?  If so, how did you handle the conversations with the religious family members who believe that babies need to be saved by baptism?  Did you just end up as the "heathen woman who doesn't believe in God" or did they understand your desire to raise a respectful, moral, well-rounded child but outside of religious structures - or somewhere in between?  (For what it's worth, I am totally supportive of every parent's decision to raise their child in their own religion, so please don't think I'm religion-bashing.  It's just not the choice for me and not the one I want to make at infancy for my child.)

Thoughts?
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