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Qestia

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Some of my best friends are atheists... really. And they keep me humble by behaving in a more Christian manner than I do, much of the time.

So normally our difference in faith does not affect our friendship, and we manage to get by without offending one another.

However, a close friend of mine, who happens to be pregnant, just sent me an email that completely baffled me. She is trying to pick a baby name, and is narrowing her list by weeding out names that she feels have "strong religious associations." Like Joshua. And William. (William?!?) And Calvin. [Killing me]

Erm... I am not about to set her straight--she can pick whatever names she wants based on whatever she wants to base it on.

So, anyone want to share some name suggestions for an atheist baby? I'm putting this in Hell because it's not really a discussion, or happy enough for heaven, but hosts, move it if you wish.

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I seem to remember a Herod from Adrian Mole, "a very radical baby who doesn't eat sweets and goes to bed at 3am".

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She will have to watch gridiron football. Some of the names that the players have come from somewhere God doesn't dwell. There was a "Plaxico" something-or-other playing tightend for a team a couple of weeks ago.

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how about "Dawkins"?

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Perhaps we should have a return to Puritan names (suitably modified of course) for children of atheistic parents - we all know that these children often flout the beliefs of their parents.

Faith, Hope, or Charity spring to mind for girls.
Not-knowing Smith, Zeus and Pan come to mind for boys (since I couldn't come up with neutral names with no biblical connotation)

Although I once knew agnostic parents who called their son Chris. When I enquired, for my records, as to whether that was an abbreviation, I discovered his full name was Joseph Christopher.

I mentally shook my head.

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Callan
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Bertrand (Russell)
Charles (Bradlaugh)
Alfred (Ayer)
Thomas (Paine) (not actually an atheist but they like to quote him)
Ludwig (Feuerbach)
Karl (Marx)
Albert (Camus)

Girl atheist babies are harder. One is pretty much left with Eleanor (Marx). Unless one really wishes to name ones child after Susan Blackmore or Ophelia Benson. IIRC, Mary Midgley is an atheist but she probably doesn't qualify because she and Dawkins don't get on, she's not rude about religious belief (being the daughter of a clergyman) and in some circles Mary is quite an important religious name.

Insist that she names him after one of the big hitters rather than saddling him with Christopher Richard Atheistbaby!

Do atheist babies have rebellious phases as teenagers where they don't want to go to atheist summer camp and decide to join the Society of St Pius X?

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Presumably 'Lalla', as in Mrs Richard Dawkins, would do for a girl.

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quote:
Originally posted by Callan:
Albert

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I suppose that Annunciata or Assumpta would be out of the question then? How about Karl, after the little-known seventh Marx brother?

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Beelzebub. Just to scare the shit out of fundieliteralists....

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The best atheist name for a boy is surely Jesus. I was tempted, when puppywonderer was born, but anticipated playground problems.

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Mad Geo

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Oh yes, girls name: Madalyn or Murray

O'Hair would be a little weird.

[ 10. October 2007, 13:28: Message edited by: Mad Geo ]

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Manipled Mutineer
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quote:
Originally posted by dogwonderer:
The best atheist name for a boy is surely Jesus. I was tempted, when puppywonderer was born, but anticipated playground problems.

Doctor William Price certainly thought so...

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When in doubt, fall back on the classics.

Primus
Secundus
Tertius
Quartus
Quintus
Sextus
Septimus
Octavius
Nonus
Decimus

or

April
May
June
Julie
Augusta

or if you want to be seen to be green and environmentally friendly

Coriander
Yarrow
Daisy
Rose
Greenpeace
Recyclina
Shreddie
Paperella

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'Ooh', said one mum, 'liitle Attila Richard Douglas is coming along fine, I am sure he said 'secular' the other day!

'Super!' said the other mum, 'Little Genghis Charles might have said 'humanism' last week, I think.' And wee Germaine Susan has written a lovely poem called 'God is a lie' for her English teacher. It goes:
God is a lie
He’s not up in the sky
And you know when you die
There’s no heavenly ‘pie’

'My, you must be so proud of her!' said the first mum.

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Wow, Manipled Mutineer, he sounds like some individualist, that Price bloke!

I love Ariel's suggestions too.
May I offer "Wayne" and "Waynetta" as being possible non-religious names. I also have a pupil called Roman - so maybe place-type names (India, Vienna, Bognor, etc) are possibilities too, with certian exceptione like Lourdes, The Vatican and Golgotha, perhaps.

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quote:
Originally posted by Ariel:
Recyclina

[Killing me]

Actually that's not too far afield of the baby-naming practice in the Soviet Union. Before Stalin, babies might be given names that abbreviate revolutionary slogans or the initials of Bolshevik heroes; in the Stalin period babies sported wonderful names that referred to industrialization and the five-year plans. Think "electrificationsky". Some were not much less weird than that.

With that in mind, names for atheist babies might include:

Freethought
Godless (that'll frighten the fundies!)
Smarterthanthosestupidchristians (could be abbreviated "Smarter")
Bright
Rebelwithoutagod

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Using the puritan example, names for the desired attitudes and attributes would seem appropriate.

Rationalista, Science-can-explain-everything, Materialistica, Progressive, Reasonabilia, Evolved, etc.

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Originally posted by Ariel:

quote:
Rose
A little girl, not a million miles from me, has Rose as one of her given names. The proud father was thinking along the lines of "Fruit of the mystic Rose, as of that Rose the stem" and "There is no Rose of swich virtue, as is the Rose that bar Jesu".

So much the same difficulty as naming the child after Dr Midgley really.

Much more damaging than the unimportant fact that the Blessed Albert of Algeria happened to share one of his names with a liberal protestant. [Biased]

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quote:
Originally posted by Zealot en vacance:
Using the puritan example, names for the desired attitudes and attributes would seem appropriate.

Rationalista, Science-can-explain-everything, Materialistica, Progressive, Reasonabilia, Evolved, etc.

How I wish I'd made a similar point. [Roll Eyes]

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Kinda like the Faith, Charity, Hope:

Reason, Brilliant, Wiser.

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There are nouns from the natural world that an atheist might embrace (beyond the flowers mentioned above):

Stone, River, Luna, Rain.

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My husband's name is Severn. I believe that is the name of a river. That would be a non-religious name, and a surefire way to make sure no one in his class has the same name.

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quote:
Originally posted by Callan:
Bertrand (Russell)
Charles (Bradlaugh)
Alfred (Ayer)
Thomas (Paine) (not actually an atheist but they like to quote him)
Ludwig (Feuerbach)
Karl (Marx)
Albert (Camus)

Girl atheist babies are harder. One is pretty much left with Eleanor (Marx). Unless one really wishes to name ones child after Susan Blackmore or Ophelia Benson. IIRC, Mary Midgley is an atheist but she probably doesn't qualify because she and Dawkins don't get on, she's not rude about religious belief (being the daughter of a clergyman) and in some circles Mary is quite an important religious name.

Insist that she names him after one of the big hitters rather than saddling him with Christopher Richard Atheistbaby!

Do atheist babies have rebellious phases as teenagers where they don't want to go to atheist summer camp and decide to join the Society of St Pius X?

Madeline is sort of an atheist name. I am thinking of Madeline Murray O'Hair, who was partly responsible for getting prayer removed from schools. Too bad she was a complete bitch and was murdered.

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Thief!

[Biased]

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Why not just go for the 'place of conception' idea? Seems to be one of the in things.

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Emma Louise

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Like "bed"?

eta I quite like "daisy" but the partner doesnt [Frown] (if we ever had kids).

When I was younger I quite liked "sky". It was very odd when it appeared on neighbours and yet now it seems a *bit* more normal.

Other kids I teach are Champagne, Brandy, Barbie, Iona, Skye.

In fact - I like the scotland island names - Iona and Skye are pretty, not so sure about Mull though!!

((not at all sure Id want to go and spend months on an island just to ensure conception at the right point!))

[ 10. October 2007, 14:57: Message edited by: Emma. ]

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Matt Black

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Or "up against a wall".

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Which needlessly bring us to a question I've often pondered.

What do atheists shout when they orgasm?

AG

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quote:
Originally posted by Pânts:
Why not just go for the 'place of conception' idea? Seems to be one of the in things.

Doorway
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quote:
Originally posted by Sandemaniac:
What do atheists shout when they orgasm?

Dawkins! Dawkins! O, Dawkins.... I'm coming!

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Emma Louise

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quote:
Originally posted by Sandemaniac:
Which needlessly bring us to a question I've often pondered.

What do atheists shout when they orgasm?

AG

"fuck"?
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Surely that's what they're doing, not what they say.

[ETA - what about, "I'm achieving rational enlightenment"?]

[ 10. October 2007, 15:08: Message edited by: Matt Black ]

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quote:
Originally posted by dogwonderer:
The best atheist name for a boy is surely Jesus. I was tempted, when puppywonderer was born, but anticipated playground problems.

Oh no that's a popular Christian one especially amongst certain groups of African Christian. Where we tend not to use that we still use Joshua (the Hebrew form of Jesus). Just as Muslims regularly call their kids Mohammed. I think "Christ" would be the one you were actually looking for. Which is a bit like calling him "King" or "Priest" but seems to be used only for Jesus.

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quote:
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Surely that's what they're doing, not what they say.

Ah, you gentle/pure/holy people have no idea.

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quote:
Originally posted by Beautiful_Dreamer:
My husband's name is Severn. I believe that is the name of a river. That would be a non-religious name, and a surefire way to make sure no one in his class has the same name.

"Ouse", perhaps.

Of course the other problem with that name is that Severn has an association with Bores.

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quote:
Originally posted by Jengie Jon:
Oh no that's a popular Christian one especially amongst certain groups of African Christian.

Indeed- which is why it would be the best atheist name. If I named my son Jesus, as an atheist, that would be true sacrilege, wouldn't it? 'Christ' sounds pretty cool though, although everyone'd be bound to mistake it for Chris.

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quote:
Originally posted by dogwonderer:
quote:
Originally posted by Matt Black:
Surely that's what they're doing, not what they say.

Ah, you gentle/pure/holy people have no idea.
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quote:
Originally posted by Jengie Jon:
quote:
Originally posted by dogwonderer:
The best atheist name for a boy is surely Jesus. I was tempted, when puppywonderer was born, but anticipated playground problems.

Oh no that's a popular Christian one especially amongst certain groups of African Christian.
It is a very common given name in Mexico.

"Chuy" is the standard nickname.

Charlotte

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quote:
Originally posted by dogwonderer:
quote:
Originally posted by Matt Black:
Surely that's what they're doing, not what they say.

Ah, you gentle/pure/holy people have no idea.
By that definition, Matt should know all about it... (I'm told.)

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Woody Allen called one of his children Satchel. I think that has great potential and you could use other household articles.

After all, if IKEA is allowed to fill a catalogue full of bookshelves called Bobby and tables called Bjorn, there's no reason you can't call a child Doorstop.

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quote:
Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
She will have to watch gridiron football. Some of the names that the players have come from somewhere God doesn't dwell. There was a "Plaxico" something-or-other playing tightend for a team a couple of weeks ago.

Plaxico (or even Plexico) Burress, a very large Wide Receiver for the New York Giants. Scored a great touchdown on Sunday - reckon a few might get named after him this week in New York ...

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Originally posted by Sandemaniac:
What do atheists shout when they orgasm?

Dawkins! Dawkins! O, Dawkins.... I'm coming!
Thank you, I just threw up my breakfast.

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Originally posted by bc_anglican:
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Originally posted by dogwonderer:
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Originally posted by Sandemaniac:
What do atheists shout when they orgasm?

Dawkins! Dawkins! O, Dawkins.... I'm coming!
Thank you, I just threw up my breakfast.
Hmm. Yeah, that happens a lot.

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Originally posted by dogwonderer:
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Originally posted by Jengie Jon:
Oh no that's a popular Christian one especially amongst certain groups of African Christian.

Indeed- which is why it would be the best atheist name. If I named my son Jesus, as an atheist, that would be true sacrilege, wouldn't it? 'Christ' sounds pretty cool though, although everyone'd be bound to mistake it for Chris.
No. It means Jehovah is Salvation, which an odd expression for an Atheist to make, but hardly sacrilege. Jesus is a normal boys name, it just happens to be the one Jesus Christ was called by. In some ways "Immanuel" which is actually quite popular is more blasphemous, as it is title specifically given by an Angel to Jesus Christ . God really does not seem to have much concern what the common name was for Jesus Christ, far more worried over that of John the Baptist.

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When I first went to America I had a reciept from McDonalds with "you were served today by Jesus". I meant to bring it home with me [Smile]
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Actual names from a family my husband's childhood best friend married into:

Lark
Iona
Ptarmigan
Shakti
Wren

I forget the others (it's been a while), but you can see the themes.

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Woody Allen called one of his children Satchel. I think that has great potential and you could use other household articles.

He didn't make it up though. There was a great black baseball player named Satchel Paige.

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After all, if IKEA is allowed to fill a catalogue full of bookshelves called Bobby and tables called Bjorn, there's no reason you can't call a child Doorstop.

That would be awesome in a really sick sort of way.

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Think of the possibilities for those people who like to be cutesy and make all the children's names start off with the same letter(s)!

Doorstop
Doorknocker
Doorbell
Doorlatch
Doorjamb
Doorway

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Originally posted by Jengie Jon:
Jesus is a normal boys name

In that case, it seems a little odd that it isn't more popular in the West. So, why aren't all you good Christian folks naming your kids 'Jesus'?

[I've a feeling IngoB's real name should be Jesus, but that's another matter.]

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