I've been to a church twice in the last 10 years, one was for an architecture seminar. The other for my niece's baptism, but quoting my brother, they did it for "good luck" so that's very religious...

LoL.

I was baptised as a baby because my mom is just into traditions and she thinks it's beautiful. Not a religious reason at all. My dad was against it though, he doesn't think it's fair to make a child's religious decisions. There isn't a consent and neither an understanding of it. I agree with him...

Honestly, I don't get why it matters.  It's not like your actually locked in to being a Christian of that denomination you were baptized in.  It's not like them sterilizing you at birth or anything.   It just keeps an option open for you until you decide whatever you want to do.

But, you could always get baptized later if you wanted. Also I want to know why Christians feel the need for it anyway. Surely if your connection with God is that strong you can just tell him through prayer rather than going through these ceremonies.

Just to semi-drunkenly put it out there. As an atheist I hate it when fundamentalist Christians tell me they 'respect my beliefs' at the same time as believing I'm going to spend eternity in hell. It seems somehow contradictory.

Both my parents were raised Catholic but they aren't religious. The main reason why me and my siblings were baptised is because Catholic schools in the area perform much better than other schools. I'd say the same was true for the majority of people I went to school with.

It's similar to how unmarried couples start attending church when they realise they want a nice church wedding.

This....but protestant...C of E.

I'm an atheist but I have no problem with Religion except extremism. I am very spiritual though.

Well I guess the answer is that that's what their religion says, and obviously since they believe their religion to be true, they believe eveything said religion says (including that all non-believers will go to hell).