Elzar: Another BS war on christianity - oh noes folks aren't using biblical names anymore...

/ My son is named after a heathen god
// fark Christians

And good look to little Cthulhu Elzar

I think I'm having a stroke

/I meant LUCK
//WTF am I typing?

MaudlinMutantMollusk: I think I'm having a stroke

/I meant LUCK
//WTF am I typing?

Was it a Scottish stroke?

Shostie: MaudlinMutantMollusk: I think I'm having a stroke

/I meant LUCK
//WTF am I typing?

Was it a Scottish stroke?

Scotch, actually

I love shiatbag articles like this where the passive-aggresive writer never makes a point. Are biblical names fading from popularity? Yes. And? Your point is, numbnuts?

Is this an appropriate thread to post that "Help, we're being repressed!" pie chart?

/dnrtfa

Sorry, girls cant go dancing on the pole with names like Esther or Martha.

/no one tips those girls

Millennium: Start the counter-trend: name your kid Zebulun or Hagar.

Or names from a different bible.

How about "Le-a" pronounced "Ledasha". I kid you not. Actual legal name.

Millennium: Start the counter-trend: name your kid Zebulun or Hagar.

what a horrible name.

/oblig

I'll help reverse this trend.  I'm naming my kids Pilate and Nebuchadnezzar.

Morever.

/Obscure, even with being Disney

There really is a lack of good Christian Bible names like Ronald, Mitt, Newt and Rush today.

Moreover

/Less obscure when it's spelled correctly
//still way too obscure, even with being Disney, and I'll bet nobody remembers it, and I've already gone to far, far too much effort for something so obscure.

I for one will be happy when the writers of the Wing Nut Daily are forcibly fitted with shock collars that can be activated via internet.  Then are forced to be on webcam 24/7.  With every stupid comment, every ridiculous conspiracy spew, the sane people of the world can give them the shock therapy they desperately need.

Carotid: How about "Le-a" pronounced "Ledasha". I kid you not. Actual legal name.

That's my sister-in-law's name.

But she pronounces it "Lehyphena"

Lionel Mandrake: Carotid: How about "Le-a" pronounced "Ledasha". I kid you not. Actual legal name.

That's my sister-in-law's name.

But she pronounces it "Lehyphena"

*snert*

Oddly enough, my mixed blood tochis has HUGE Biblical connotations. An Archangel and a fairly important Biblical king. Then it gets mucked up with the Ellis Island mistake of transforming our German name into something vaguely Dutch or oddly transliteral in English. Not a big deal. My mother is Japanese, but somehow the genetics worked out to me only coming out only a bit Nihonjin looking, so maybe it's a good thing that I wasn't saddled with an Archangel's name, and then Toshiro or Hironori.

Rather than look for cool sounding names for our daughter, my then wife and I decided that we wanted to name our girl after people we care about. Thus she got named for my wife's best friend, my Aunt who raised me and is as close to a mother as I have, and my then wife's grandmother, who we were afraid wasn't going to live to see our girl, and we wanted her to know that she had a namesake, and maybe it worked, because the gal pulled through to see her namesake. It does mean that our daughter hates us around standardized testing time, because she NEVER has enough room to write out her full name. When she was a baby, we joked that her name was longer than she was. And it kind of is, but it is chock full of meaning. If the girl critter and I have a son, then he will be named after folks who are important to us again. As a namesake. As a way of remembrance and honoring those folks.

That my daughter's name has some Biblical elements isn't because we honor the People of the Book--neither of us are Christian. I'm a Buddhist, and my ex wife is a pagan. OK, she's sort of Newage--and yes, that's pronounced like it rhymes with "sewage" but her's is a mix and match sort of thing, and it's sort of hard to respect a faith tradition that picks and chooses what elements it will follow like a pu pu platter. It wound up that way, because the people we were closest to had fairly common names, and their folks chose some good sized Christian ones.

We chose to honor the folks who are closest to us. The girlcritter likes the idea, and I'm glad that she's on board, because it made the process of naming my daughter fairly easy. It isn't the path that everyone takes. I know that some folks want cool names. Something that sets their kids from the others. I hold less with that, because I think names help root us. Names have power, and if your name is ripped from fiction, and not even terribly established fiction, it sort of drains that power away. It lacks a certain...anchoring in the culture. It shows a kid that his or her folks were moved by a fad, and that is maybe a lesson can go down hard. But that's my take on it, and they're not my kids, and it's not my decision. I don't hold with it, I don't agree with it, but it's not my place to judge--well, maybe a little, but it has less to do about the child than the parents, and I WILL judge the f*ck out of other parents around my wee girl. And I can see folks who will judge others for what they name their kids. I can understand it, if it is sort of this faddish sort of thing. Mind you, it is sort of sad, that Christians forget Matthew 7:1, but it is understandable.

But it's none of my business, and while internally I may roll my eyes, if someone introduces their baby Katniss to me, I'm going to answer the phone when the bairn hands me their plastic phone and get to know the kid. Kids can't help what we name them, so maybe it's a good idea to make that name means something, but it's not my business if they decide to do so with a fad, because we all have our idiosyncrasies. It's, at best, a venial sin against good taste.

We should be giving kids good biblical names like Herod or Pontius Pilate.

Is that so? Then I presume the WND acolytes have terrific things to say Adam Lanza, James Holmes and John Hinkley. Right? Right?

/Imbecilic rationale

Apos: Is that so? Then I presume the WND acolytes have terrific things to say about Adam Lanza, James Holmes and John Hinkley. Right? Right?

/Imbecilic rationale

NFA: I for one will be happy when the writers of the Wing Nut Daily are forcibly fitted with shock collars that can be activated via internet.  Then are forced to be on webcam 24/7.  With every stupid comment, every ridiculous conspiracy spew, the sane people of the world can give them the shock therapy they desperately need.

That would require sane people to actually read what they write.

Millennium: Start the counter-trend: name your kid Zebulun or Hagar.

Hagar? That's a horrible name.

Millennium: Start the counter-trend: name your kid Zebulun or Hagar.

I went with Kang and Kodos. But that's just me.

_{/doesn't actually have kids}

If you put 10 men in a room odds are 2 of them are named Dave. We're in good company even if we tend to stay out of the public eye

If we're going with religious names, I'm using Greek ones.

basemetal: Sorry, girls cant go dancing on the pole with names like Esther or Martha.

/no one tips those girls

You think those girls are all really called Roxy?

moothemagiccow: If we're going with religious names, I'm using Greek ones.

basemetal: Sorry, girls cant go dancing on the pole with names like Esther or Martha.

/no one tips those girls

You think those girls are all really called Roxy?

It's still real to me, dammit!

God.