Posted on 01/11/2011 9:57:46 AM PST by marshmallow
My daughter is 40. When she was baptized, I gave her a name that is a variant of Joan. I also called her Susanne. He balked at using her first name and invoked Santa Susanne. The pope is only suggesting that we give our children names that identify them as Christians. Sort of like naming a girl Maria rather than Courtney.
While I personally prefer biblical names and all my children were given them, there is absolutely no scriptural requirement for them, and creating such a requirement unscriptural and un-Christian.
The idea that a child has a “protectting saint” is polytheistic and anti-Christian.
I do think that parents who give their children stupid, gimmicky names show a lack of love and respect for those children, though.
Would Holly Spririt be close enough?
Congratulations! That's an excellent analogy.
While "Anquan Washington" may sound like a ridiculous name, I don't see how "Bradley Rizzuto" is much better.
lol.
Holly Spirit, that might work.
So she says.
But clearly she doesn't attend Mass too frequently.
Last January, the first readings focused specifically on the Book of Nehemiah, in which Ezra features prominently.
Fascinating. There seem to be a huge number of folks, even supposed conservatives on this forum, who think folks are bad people because they're Catholic. In some folks' eyes, the Catholics are not Christians.
Now, I completely disagree with your SIL, and note further that her position is contradictory to that of the Church to which she professes membership.
I was NOT about to start an argument with her about "who knows the Bible better".
No need. "Ezra was a priest and teacher of the Hebrews in the Old Testament." No need to make a production of it.
On my daughter's (largely Catholic) soccer team, we once had an "Autumn", a "Stormy", a "Summer" and a "Sky".
I guess it must have been a time when weather was playing a big part in peoples' thinking........ :-)
He has no fascist power....he informs adults about what makes lives more meaningful to children....gives them more worth and connection to their traditions and family history. It connects the generations and creates traditions which is the most powerful aspect of transmitting culture to the next generation and create stable societies.
Marxism wants all history and traditions destroyed. Why? It is to destroy the Natural Family so he can redesign man and woman into his ungodly image. The Pope is the main force against this Marxian utopia which has always led to annihilation and a Culture of Death.
The German Pope understands the evil he is against. He also understands child psychology which you do not.
Ideas are the most important aspect of life. The Pope is reminding people that if cultures are to survive, they must have traditions that are meaningful.
I think the Pope is a voice of sanity in a world which is descending into the Nietzschean abyss and orgy of paganism where the origin of ideas are just uncritically adopted with total absence of reason and logic and concern with future of societies. It is nihilism.
In the eyes of the Pope, you are. That underlines her tenuous grasp of the faith she claims to profess.
She’s a MA Liberal in a big way. Very pro-Abortion. Very pro-Homosexual agenda. I don’t know why she considers herself Catholic, but she does. It’s not my place to declare that anyone is “not a good Christian”, but I have to say that she may be missing the mark by just a bit.
“Rat Singer”
How’s that for a name?
“Marxism wants all history and traditions destroyed. Why? It is to destroy the Natural Family so he can redesign man and woman into his ungodly image. The Pope is the main force against this Marxian utopia which has always led to annihilation and a Culture of Death.”
Also I sense, Pope Benedict has never forgotten his predecesor who had to stand up so many times to the oppressive forces of marxism in his own home nation, which even included celibrating Christmas midnight mass outside in a park of a city that was built but did not have a church to worship in.
Its a liberal in-your-face defiance thing, I guess.
BTW, in German "Ratzinger" is dialect for "councillor."
I’m sure that in spite of Benedict’s comments, some folks will continue impose names like “Princess Pixie Peaches” on their sons ... and then get upset when some prominent public figure (or even a regular schmoe like me) suggests that it is a ridiculous thing to do.
"Proud of my heritage", my A$$!
As in, he zings rats.
Perhap there were some rats crawling around in his pope-house, requiring him to purchase a pellet with which to zing them.
Just a thought.
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