Help me STW, you’re my only hope.

wrecker did you forgive him and turn the other cheek 😉

I just dont go to them personally…all the ones I have been invited to have involved deeply non religious parents.

Isn’t there a bit where the congregation have to denounce evil or something, just reply in the negative.
I also refuse to go being the sort of person who doesn’t believe in a supernatural deity who flounces about making everything. My sister trumped me though when we had a humanist naming ceremony for our little one in the back garden by buying her a bible.

You should have trumped her by simply burning it

HTH

wrecker did you forgive him and turn the other cheek

Yep. And I made sure he knew it by laughing like a drain. I’d have been a good reliogionist, me.

Either be a man and tell people the truth and don’t go. Or be a man and go out of responsibility/duty/whatever and stick it out to the end.

But whatever you do, don’t go crawling out with some half-baked lie you got from STW unless you want everyone present to think you’re a bit of a weasel.

Can’t you just not go, and if they get mardy with you just say;
Sorry, please forgive me… Then they have to dont they!?

Isn’t there a bit where the congregation have to denounce evil or something

I was at one where during this bit one of the godparents had his fingers crossed behind his back in full view of the congregation. The locals were not at all pleased.

Turn up in your best tramping outfit, with a carrier bag full of the Brew. Maybe growl at a few people.

I can’t believe no-one’s mentioned Picolax yet.

As to the Godparent bit, my peer group did it for each other. Not much for religion, but rather accepting formal responsibility for the child if bad things should happen to one or both parents.

Either go or don’t it’s that simple.

Family innit. Got to go.

Also, if the patents get creamed by a bus I suspect that we’d have more of a role in the kid’s upbringing as it id difficult to wipe an arse or give a hug over a video link from South America.

Not much for religion, but rather accepting formal responsibility for the child if bad things should happen to one or both parents.

Does any god-parent actually expect to be held to this if something did happen to the parents?

Yes. that is the whole point.

IS IT????? Crikey, I have responsibilities.

Bottle of water down boy’s front early in the service?

Surely at a Christening that just looks like you’re taking part?

If its family and you give a toss about them then why dont you just go and behave properly.

If you cannot do that then dont go and politely make your excuses

Just neck a couple of bananas and a bottle of coke immediately beforehand.

2 minutes later the foam will be coming out of your mouth. Hey presto! Fake Rabies!

Should do the job….or do as I do, replace every 7th word in a Hymn with the word ‘****’, fart a lot and try get a game of bogey going with the boy.

Just be honest and tell the truth that you’d rather be doing something else with your son, i imagine the weather will be far too nice to waste time in a church sitting through such a pointless ceremony, If they are your friends then why choose to lie to them?.

Don’t lie to friends, be honest and yeah, you may piss some folk off but it’s your life.

My friends know me well enough to never invite me to such things. Having said that, they do involve me in the kids lives a lot more than the actual “godparent” title holders.

As above, “Do, or do not. There is no try.”

If its family and you give a toss about them then why dont you just go and behave properly.

Lighten up. 🙄

Of course we will all behave ourselves.

Publishing opportunity for slimline books of bike porn, easily slipped between the pages of a standard bible/hymn book….

Good luck. Time slows down in churches.

Turn up on the bikes dressed for a ride and keep looking at your watch. Maybe even call strava on them. Or tell the family you would go if it wasn’t a sham attempt to get into a different school.

Does any god-parent actually expect to be held to this if something did happen to the parents?

That was my understanding then. Maybe the world has changed. If so, it’s for the worse.

Dawn ride, turn up late and muddy (and bloody if you can manage it)

You get a ride in, you avoid the ceremony, you are in time for cake.

Last one I went to the conversation immediately after was centred around how easy it was to be taken ‘off the books’ so you don’t get included in their headcount.

I thank god my parents for not signing me up to something thatwould turn out to be strongly against my beliefs rational and questioning mind.

Or at a pre agreed sign, you could both just shit yourselves at the breakfast table?

Genuinely made me laugh. Please go for this option.

Bottle of water down boy’s front early in the service?

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Very good point. I’d avoid this option.

Dawn ride, turn up late and muddy (and bloody if you can manage it)

You get a ride in, you avoid the ceremony, you are in time for cake.

This is the option I’d choose. Mmmmm. Cake.