What should i do if someone ever asked me to be a Godparent for a child…im atheist!???
Well, you need to be honest with the parents about your beliefs. The entire purpose of a “Godparent” is to help the parents raise the child in the beliefs of their religion. It is to be a guide and a representative of those religious beliefs in the child’s life. Just explain to the parents that you are honored to have been asked, but you are atheist and don’t feel it would be honest or right to claim beliefs just to get a title “godparent”. Say that you would love to be considered an important person in that child’s life, but that “Godparent” would be unfair to the child. Offer yourself as a sort of life mentor to the child instead.
If they know you are atheist, then they just want you to have a deeply close relationship with their child. The term “godparents” truly doesn’t mean much anymore, it has really changed in meaning over the years. And finally, if they mean for you to be the one the child lives with in the (horrible) event of their deaths, make sure they go and set up a will, as a “godparent” has less chance in court than any other member of their family. So, as long as they realize that you believe differently then them, I say go for it. If they don’t know, now might be the time to set down and ask them what they want from you and then tell them your true beliefs.
Unfortunately for my family I am a Pagan born n bred,my sister and brother became christians,I will not ever do that,when my sister asked me to become a “god”parent I declined the offer,not because I didn’t care for my niece but I am no hypocrite,with less than 6% of the UK’s total population actually attending church services on any regular basis(the muslims being the greatest number) I find it all completely hypocritical,if you are an atheist ..stick to your guns,explain why you can’t and hope they have the understanding of why you are not able to commit to an ideal you do not believe in and then do as I do,I take my niece out every few months when she comes down to visit my hometown ,I take her walking in the dales or visit the lakes or up into dalby forest with my wife…we show her nature as it should be and she is always full of questions her mother cannot answer,when it becomes obvious a theological difference is going to crop up she asks us what we think about it and then she g
