Weird that he'd go as far as giving the child as Catholic-sounding a name as "Carl Philip Maria", though, given his well-known views on Christianity.
Incidentally, CPM would attract precisely no attention whatsoever in these parts. I suggest you agree to that name on condition that you relocate to Germany or Austria. That'd larn him. :)
Well, that what's interesting about him--he finds Catholicism, because it's so steeped in tradition, to be the most intellectual and philosophically grounded faiths of the Western tradition.
I do believe that he would agree to (forgive me if I misspell this; I don't know Latin) Johannes Paulus, but not John Paul. :)
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Date: 2010-08-13 11:50 am (UTC)Incidentally, CPM would attract precisely no attention whatsoever in these parts. I suggest you agree to that name on condition that you relocate to Germany or Austria. That'd larn him. :)
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Date: 2010-08-14 02:06 am (UTC)I do believe that he would agree to (forgive me if I misspell this; I don't know Latin) Johannes Paulus, but not John Paul. :)
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Date: 2010-08-14 07:47 am (UTC)Hmm. If he has no intrinsic objection to the names of Popes, I suggest you insist on Benedict. :D