USE OF CHRISTIAN NAMES
Sir,-Your editorial on the use of Christian names serves to remind me that it is time our official usage of this term was revised. On official documents this term is indiscriminately used to designate names that are not Christian at all. We have people of many nonChristian religions who are obliged to use these forms wherein they are described as having Christian names when this is not correct. Rationalists and agnostics are also subjected to the same wrongful compulsion of having their first, or forenames, presumptuously and erroneously entered under ‘the description of "Christian." I feel sure that all fair-minded people will see the desirability of doing something to end the perpetuation of such an obvious inaccuracy.
W. J.
WILLIAMSON
(Christchurch).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 718, 17 April 1953, Page 5
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