Naming a kid "Lucifer" is forbidden
May 1, 2017 at 4:19 pm
(This post was last modified: May 1, 2017 at 4:20 pm by Fake Messiah.)
So in many states across the world it is forbidden to name your child Lucifer. But the reason is rarely stated, although it is because it would probably scare Christians.
Now I do think it's stupid that it's forbidden. Ok I understand that naming your kid "Hitler" is a bad thing or "Osama Bin Laden", but Lucifer was simply old name for Venus and there was never any notoriously bad person named Lucifer. In fact there were even Christians saints and bishops named Lucifer so what's the problem?
But let's face it, most Christians are uninformed about everything, including history of their own religion, that they don't even know there was St. Lucifer, let alone other positive meanings of this name.
Now I do think it's stupid that it's forbidden. Ok I understand that naming your kid "Hitler" is a bad thing or "Osama Bin Laden", but Lucifer was simply old name for Venus and there was never any notoriously bad person named Lucifer. In fact there were even Christians saints and bishops named Lucifer so what's the problem?
But let's face it, most Christians are uninformed about everything, including history of their own religion, that they don't even know there was St. Lucifer, let alone other positive meanings of this name.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
