{UAH} Archbishop Lwanga cautions parents on children's names

Folks;

 

 

I have two major issues with the Archbishop's counsel:

 

1) He claims that giving children "Christian names" moulds them into better people morally and spiritually. That's nonsense.

 

2) The meaning of a Christian name. But what's a Christian?

 

Let me start with Number 1. Growing up with a particular name or brand name does not compel one to follow specific moral or spiritual path. The "given names" that we use today - Paul, Moses, Timothy, Peter, Simon, etc - may have come from the Bible, but by themselves, they do not give us any spiritual compass.

 

Besides, some of those Biblical names are of dangerous, corrupt, uncouth people. David is the best example.

 

A hero in his youth, as King, David was a flawed womanizer who impregnated the wife of his own soldiers and had the man killed to avoid further embrassment. So, how does naming a boy David, help him become  a better person?

 

 

Then there's the adjective Christian. Originally used as a derogative to mock the Desciples who surrounded Jesus, the word "christian" appears only three times in the Bible. Not even Jesus himself called himself as such.

 

It was after the ruin of Rome, under Emperor Nero, around  AD 68, that the tag Christian gained "mainstream" use, and was elevated to a badge of respect for Followers of Jesus between Jerusalem and Rome.

 

.Archbishop Lwanga should counsel his flock to "love one another..." because that's the last and most-enduring commandment that Jesus issued before he was killed. What one calls one's child has no bearing on how that child might turn out in life.

 

Pojim

 

 

 

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