Anybody in this group called Faith?
Posted on: April 16, 2009 - 4:59am
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Anybody in this group called Faith?
I ask because my name Poisson in French means Fish, and I cringe everytime I see one of these Jesus fishes pasted on a car... I wonder what it does to be an atheist called Faith.
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Well, how hard is it to get it legally changed where you are? Since you have a thing for fish, you could have it changed to sea-lion. They eat quite a lot of fish. You would also get bonus points every time you had a chance to introduce yourself in english. "No, that really is my name. Want to see my ID?"
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I have no plan to change my name just because I cringe once in a while - we don't get that many jesus fishes in Quebec...
Plus, in French it's a name that is easily recalled (useful for someone who claims to be an artist) because it means something real and simple that everybody knows. And I like the fact that the Skeleton Fish represents atheism and evolution in some ironic way.
My Blog: One Life
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"An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support."
John Buchan, 1875 - 1940
I would never associate the name Faith with a religious conviction of any intensity on the part of its owner, no more than I would assume every John I met obsessed constantly about shit disposal and flushed on demand. Faith to me is simply a continued trust in someone or something, an admirable human quality when founded on just cause, I find.
If I happened to meet a blind Faith of course then that might be different.
I would rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy
Well said Nordmann, I agree.
Another last name, commmon in Quebec is Chrétien ( litterally "Christian" ) I believe it aslo exists in its English form.
"Hi! My name is Faith Christian and I'm an atheist."
My Blog: One Life
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"An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support."
John Buchan, 1875 - 1940
If only I could be lucky enough to have that name, could have so much fun with it
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