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I don't think it's sacreligious if it's not intended that way. Even if it is sacreligious ... I just don't care. Since I believe that all religions are man-made and ultimately meaningless, "sacreligious" doesn't carry any weight in my eyes. The parents who use Nevaeh are, I suspect, a combination of religious and uneducated. Put it this way: parents with theology degrees don't name their offspring Nevaeh. They'd choose something from the Bible, perhaps. But Spelling something good backwards = bad seems like a pagan superstition to me anyway - and I doubt many Christians would assign themselves to pagan superstition. (It seems to be almost exclusively American Christians using Nevaeh.)

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To answer your question, no, you're not the only one to think that. I've heard it many times before. But my own reasons for disliking Nevaeh revolve around its tackiness and its stupidity, not its religious or irreligious significance.

This message was edited 3/20/2007, 4:42 AM