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Help[Opinions] Re: Easter
in reply to a message by mizzchable
Yes, I think it's fine, because the origin of the name is quite pagan, in fact, and precedes the Christian festival. (Check it out: Easter) So it doesn't have a religious meaning like, say, Christmas does.
However, if she wants to avoid any names that might suggest piety to the pious, I suppose Easter would be one to avoid.
- chazda
However, if she wants to avoid any names that might suggest piety to the pious, I suppose Easter would be one to avoid.
- chazda
This message was edited 9/19/2005, 5:32 PM
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But Eostre was the name of a goddess, even at that--the word as a word may not have a religious meaning, but it certainly did at one point. Which makes it doubly weird to use as a personal name honoring a different religion--and, as has been noted, mileage may vary on any explicitly religious name.
Word-names tend to veer toward the cheesy anyway, in my opinion, and your friend would probably do better with Agnes, Lily, Rachel, or Pascale. Even April would be a marginally better name, and that's the month in which Easter falls next year.
Word-names tend to veer toward the cheesy anyway, in my opinion, and your friend would probably do better with Agnes, Lily, Rachel, or Pascale. Even April would be a marginally better name, and that's the month in which Easter falls next year.
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Hehee.
So was Diana the name of a goddess, and Bridget and Chloe and Rhiannon and Irene and Tanith and Freya and Vesta refer to goddesses too..
So "having a religious meaning at one point" does not really make a name honor the religion it derived from. That's a bit silly, isn't it? The problem was that Easter refers to a Christian holiday - albeit one coopted from paganism - it's immediately perceived as Christian now, so the name Easter would be superficially perceived as "honoring" Christianity. I guess that's all that matters, though.
- chazda the pedantic
So was Diana the name of a goddess, and Bridget and Chloe and Rhiannon and Irene and Tanith and Freya and Vesta refer to goddesses too..
So "having a religious meaning at one point" does not really make a name honor the religion it derived from. That's a bit silly, isn't it? The problem was that Easter refers to a Christian holiday - albeit one coopted from paganism - it's immediately perceived as Christian now, so the name Easter would be superficially perceived as "honoring" Christianity. I guess that's all that matters, though.
- chazda the pedantic
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