I am an atheist but my aunt and uncle want me to baptize their son. Help?

Just do it for your aunt and uncle.

Anyone can baptize but all that baptizing a 4 month old will do is get him wet.

Being baptized is a way to demonstrate that you have accepted Jesus Christ as you Lord and Savior and a 4 month old can't do that.

We all sin, therefore we are all sinners. Since God is absolutely holy, He cannot be in the direct presence of sinful creatures. Therefore, all who are sinful must be separated from God and cannot be allowed to enter into His home (Heaven). Hell is the place where these people must go, away from the presence of God. But God loves us and does not want everyone to go to Hell so he sent Jesus Christ to suffer and die on the cross as payment for our sins. After 3 days in the grave Jesus overcame death and rose from the dead and walked among men being seen by hundreds of people. In order to receive this gift from Jesus Christ we must make him our Lord and Savior.

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Uh......why would YOU baptize anyone? That's done by the priests. And I would do it. Doesn't hurt anyone if there's no God.

Child baptism means zero it's simply like when you break a bottle of wine over a new boat so you don't believe in God so how can it have any power? To refuse will place more focus on your atheism do the thing just for others and forget it's done.

It has no more meaning to God then a bath.

And you don't believe in God's so give the kid a bath big deal.

You can't. Only a Christian can baptize and the ONLY ones who are to be baptize are repentant adult believers.

If I was an atheist the first thing I would do is Repent of my sins and Trust Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior and all these other problems would be solved.

Not an acceptable form of Baptism by Catholics unless the child is in mortal danger. In that case even you can validly baptize. You need not be Christian or any other religion. Simple apply water (or moisture if water is unavailable) to the child's forehead or scalp saying, "I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit." You need not be in any particular mental state or have any belief in what you are doing. In an emergency anyone can baptize someone who wishes to die Catholic.

UPDATE: Perhaps you misunderstood and they want you to be a godfather of the child. This is an honor they are paying you, but it is more than ceremonial. It would be best to declined saying you are now atheist or a circumlocution such as "the Church and I are not on good terms, these days" or "My faith is weak, I shouldn't"

I thought the Priest did that, nobody else.

Do it for fun.

Please consider the following scenario:

Someone, we'll call him Joe, is a quasi kind of Christian, but doesn't

make a big deal out of it, believes it but believes lots of other things, too?

Then Joe is asked to baptize his cousin and he thinks 'Whoa, I'm not

fit for this'....and this is a sort of Christian, right? What do YOU say

to him?

Scenario #2:

Someone else, Oscar...we'll say he's Oscar....has been practicing

homosexuality now for several years, knows that's how it is for him,

but he attends church with his family and gets along great with

all of them.

Then HE'S asked to do this and he thinks....wait a minute, no way

do I want to go that far. What if my homosexual friends come,

call me on this? What do you say to him?

Lots of examples, right? And so I agree it likely would go very

badly to accept this. YOU KNOW within yourself, THEY DO NOT,

and they aren't noticing or even...caring....kind of sad, right?

So, if you say 'This is a very big thing for your son and I just

can't do it, it is so serious, and please don't ask me to do this'.

I think they gotta accept this.

Joe and Oscar can do this also.

Basically, don't you have to be 'true' to yourself? Not that

atheism is true, but you must follow what you believe, and

that's the sense I use this word 'true'.

You can't live a lie within yourself.

So you can't do this. They decided, and you weren't asked

to agree. No, that's not right, is it? It's not right to push

anyone to do something that isn't right for them.

So, 'please find someone else, because this is way beyond

what I feel is right for me'.....yes, they'll likely THEN wake up.

But I'd just deflect it. Better that way, don't you think so?

As in, is it any of their business?