Sometimes you need to go along with the conventional norm, to make your life and your children's lives easier.
yes i agree, but some cases like this one, going along with the norm comes with regrets in the later stages of life.
I had strict parents as a kid, while my friends had a lot of access to drugs and offered me some even in school they'd offer me, but the temptation was not greater than the fear i had of what my parents would've done to me, as a result i'm clean of drugs and alcohol, i always hated my parents for this, but now as a Zevist i am grateful.
The Zevism that had to deal with christian parents most wish they had Zevism parents to raise them satanically, OP has this opportunity, raising his kid like an 'actual' christian may help him fit in, but will regret it later on.
In some places in Europe, especially small towns, people can even lose their jobs if they don't baptize their babies, and then how can you afford to feed them? Your relatives can often shun you, which affects your baby. What some people here believe, that you can easily go against the norm, is only applicable in America, Canada, and larger cities in Europe.
I get that places like the USA have freedom of religion and such, i'm from the Caribbean so i don't quite know of the laws in the USA, but on the TOZ homepage there's a tab called coping with christianityExternal ↗ that's where i got this from, i'm not sure if they're outdated.
Places like the middle east were islam and such is forced, for a Zevist i get that you have to follow these norms but actually worshiping 'allah' and pretending to do so are 2 different things, OP can always pretend that his kid had an christian baptism and can train his kid to pretend to conform to christianity.
With that being said, i'm not sure about places were a baptism is mandatory?
do you get like a certificate or something written?
if not then you can always lie about it.