Comments on: Man Changed Name to "In God We Trust"

By: ted

ted — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:13:45 +0000

At work, I dealt with a native guy whose last name was Nothing. At some point, one of his ancestors was told to pick a name, and he picked Nothing.

Something tells me this guy won't have many Wetrust descendants. Looks more like "wet rust" when you take the space out.

By: Alex Fear

Alex Fear — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:00:31 +0000

@Max Power

Does having a Swiss German friend with the name Grossenbacher count? ... actually I may be confusing the Swiss German spelling.

@Thomas

My bad, it's actually Isaac her son which means "she/he laughs".

Anyway you get the point.

By: AM

AM — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 03:36:21 +0000

What an asshole.

By: ty

ty — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:40:47 +0000

God may have blessed him with that $600 stimulus check, but I think those of us who haven't changed our names are a little more blessed cuz we can keep the money.

By: Napkin

Napkin — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:35:08 +0000

IMO, A fine example of yet another typical egotistical, "look at me", "look what I can do!" Christian. Many Christian demoninations bribe people with money and goods to spread their disease because they can't force people by violence like they used to for so many years because we have LAWS. In short, I recommend we change the wording on currency to "In Santa we trust."

By: Neatoramawontsendmeapassword

Neatoramawontsendmeapassword — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:18:02 +0000

Kind of pretentious, and rather unnecessary. He could've gone with any number of Biblical names, many of which have to do with God. But then he couldn't have shown off his godliness. This whole discussion reminds me of that "Friends" episode where Phoebe was going to change her name to "Princess Consuela Bananahammock"... and then Mike said he was going to change his name to "Crap Bag". I think Steve of Zion here (hey... why didn't he just use that?) should have gone with "Nut Bag" as some people have suggested.

By: Max Power

Max Power — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:08:30 +0000

Learn German, Alex Fear

By: lynne

lynne — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:25:30 +0000

Would you trust this God?

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/jun/21/oh-my---god-arrested-coke-char ges/?news-breaking

By: Wes

Wes — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:20:35 +0000

"I feel this is a way to honor God and immortalize that phrase."

So he plans to live forever?

By: grossenbacher

grossenbacher — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:13:44 +0000

Grossenbacher = lit.: great stream = someone who lived near a great stream.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:09:38 +0000

edit: Christ-Bearer.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:09:02 +0000

Baker > Probably had an ancestor who baked.
Jamesson > Most likely had an ancestor who was the son of a James.
Dawson's Creek > I'm not sure what you're asking on this one...
Christopher > Means "Christ-Barer"
Grossenbacher > Surprise -- lots of people have names pertaining to their ancestors' occupations.
Sarah > Actually from the Hebrew for lady or princess.
Scrooge > I'm pretty sure Dickens made that one up.
In God We Trust > Not at all like any of the above names. Nor is there really any precedent for naming yourself based on something you saw on a dollar.

By: Celeste

Celeste — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:02:43 +0000

@Alex Fear: True, but in those cases the names were usually chosen by someone else, not the person him/herself. It's a little more pretentious to give yourself a name like that.

By: Alex Fear

Alex Fear — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:10:59 +0000

Pardon my ignorance, but haven't all names stemmed from something else?

And if the guy was a native Indian would everyone be mocking?

Dances With Wolves, anyone...?

What about these other names:

Baker...?
Jamesson...?
Dawsons Creek...?
Christopher?
Lewis Carol?

for the international...

Grossenbacher... (this means Greatbaker in German)?

for the historical...

Sarah... (meaning She Laughs)?

Do we call people a scrooge because that word represents a tight-fisted person or because it was someone's name who was tight fisted?

Sure they sound normal now but weren't they all at some point strange-sounding for someones name?

And to the Christians commenting on this thread... read your damn bible, name changing after an encounter was God is pretty much the standard fare throughout the whole of the old testament and some in the new.

By: Moon

Moon — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:54:38 +0000

Be careful not to display your righteousness merely to be seen by people. Otherwise you have no reward with your Father in heaven.

Matthew 6:1 (Jesus speaking)

By: HollywoodBob

HollywoodBob — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:18:07 +0000

I'm frankly astonished that he was able to pull it off. I thought there were laws preventing the mentally ill from doing this sort of thing.

By: MoonCake

MoonCake — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:58:41 +0000

...not to be confused with his brother One Nation Under God and his sister Ima Dirty Ho-bag.

By: Lasse

Lasse — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:33:19 +0000

It is not very humble to have "God" as a part of your first name, is it?

By: ryanp

ryanp — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:18:43 +0000

Nutbag.

...well...I thought I would have more to say, but I guess that pretty much covers it.

By: Evilbeagle

Evilbeagle — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 12:58:52 +0000

Another nut bag Fundie. Yeah, the stupid runs deep in that one.

By: Some Canadian Skeptic

Some Canadian Skeptic — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 12:47:44 +0000

Yeah, it must be really hard to be a christian in the united states. What with having the all three branches of the government completely christian (with the exception of one atheist congressman that I'm aware of), oodles of money for faith-based-initiatives and the general impression that if you're a 'church goer', that implies that the person is an upstanding citizen, sort of on par with having served in the military.

Must be difficult.

By: BikerRay

BikerRay — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:03:43 +0000

I think the Monty Python name has more of a ring to it:
Tarquin Fintimlinbinwhinbimlim Bus Stop F’tang F’tang Ole Biscuit-Barrel

By: Frank

Frank — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:42:15 +0000

It is always good to have the freedom to choose to be stupid...

By: ahole jerry

ahole jerry — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 08:48:40 +0000

"Efforts by atheists to remove any reference to God from U.S. currency also has him worried. He said the words are an "endangered species." But now he feels he's saved the phrase forever. "You can take it off the money, but you can't take away my name," he has said previously." Steve Kruescher of Zion has legally changed his name to "In God We Trust." ..'cause you know, these are the kinda things you have to do to be a good christian and to get into heaven. Moron. As a christian, i do support removing "in God we trust" from the currency because: 1) money is evil 2) america is evil.

By: Pol x

Pol x — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 08:14:44 +0000

nut bag.

then the religious have a long standing tradition of crazy names.

The Lord is my Saviour Bare Bones for one.and his brother PraiseGod

real guys BTW, 17th century London. One of them created the fisrt fire Brigade

By: andrew

andrew — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 07:47:01 +0000

Wow. There's just nothing to say here. There is nothing I can say to make this situation any stupider.

By: edc

edc — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 07:35:46 +0000

cool, hope he doesn't get shit from the children about it.