[wideawake]

Making fun of people's last names - great stuff. It may not go over so well for you in third grade next year, though. Their humor is a little more sophisticated.

BTW, in German "Ratzinger" is dialect for "councillor."

[fishtank]

I was actually trying to steer the discussion AWAY from making fun of people’s names.

Seriously, I don’t like my own first name, and it is NOT a Biblical, “Christian” name, and I actually would change it, if it made practical sense.

But the Pope is wrong. The Bible does not have a record of people changing their names from a pagan first name to a “Christian” first name.

The great evangelist “Apollo” comes to mind....

.... Not as in “Apollo Creed”, but I must say, but Apollo Creed is a very cool name, even from a Bible point of view.