No offense to Mexicans or Mexican-Americans,but where else do you find parents naming their kids Jesus?
2007-11-26 15:16:26 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Megs VT - wow,you're right! Zeus - great name for a strong baby boy...I'll have to remember that when I get married.
2007-11-26 15:21:54 · update #1
That's a very old joke. There are many extrapolations,in other words a whole body of jokes or a sub-genre rlated to this main one. Did you hear the one about the guy who named his dog Jesus because he was mad at the parish priest?
You could fill a small book with Hispanic humor on the usage of jesus as a mundane name.
2007-11-27 14:33:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
jOKE: Peter was guarding the gates of heaven when a servant approached the gates to be let in. Peter told the servant, "Come in, you have been clarified to come in. The servant stalls time because he heard Peter saying that Jesus was coming to see him (Peter). The servant curious about Jesus and he wanted to see if Jesus was black, brown, white, red, etc, etc. Anyway, he heard bells and horns as Jesus approached Peter, and Jesus says to Peter, "Bueno Diaz".
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Mexicans&Americans named their kids 'Mary or Maria' (frm the Virgin Mary); Jose or Joseph ( frm Joseph the Human father of Jesus); Pedro or Peter; Pablo or Paul: Mateo or Matthew; Juan or John; Lucas or Luke; Daniel has the same spelling but different pronunciation just like JESUS.
No offense but maybe Mexicans/Mexican-Americans are the chosen people. Nobody knows, only HE knows.
GOD BLESS! AMEN! SHALOM!
2007-11-26 16:06:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus is a very popular name among all latin america, now this is the true origin of why it is:
After the fall of the great empires of the american cultures like the aztecs by the hands of spanish "armies", and once most of the population were killed and raped, spanish monks were sent to "help adoctrinate" the natives in order to subdue the minds of the natives that went by mayan or nahuatl names, some of these names still exist and are beautiful, mexican parents still put some of these names to their children, like Citlalli( it means star), Xochitl (it means Flower), Nicte (means flower too), so, these monks baptized most of the population with hispanic names and surnames, most of them had to be linked to the religion they were trying to introduce by sheer force, so they could truly destroy their original culture, and they began to baptize people with the name of Jesus, Maria (mary), Jose (Joseph) and all of their saints (they are a lot: Pablo, Juan, etc.) and the way it sounds like Hey zeus, its cuz thats how "j" its pronounced in spanish.
Spanish didnt got enough with destroying most of their temples and cities, Mexico City's Catedral, located right in the middle of the central square in front of the National Palace where Mexico's President often visits, is builded over a very big aztec pyramid. And right beside the catedral, its one big museum about aztec culture, with some parts of that pyramid in plain sight.
Got it now?
2013-10-17 11:29:03 · answer #3 · answered by Miguel 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Mexicans were converted by christian monks and they gave the name Jesus to their boys in hopes that one would really be Jesus returned to earth. One guy in NM (USA) believes he is Jesus returned to earth and his philosophy is to eat drink and be marry! He had a large following last I heard!
2007-11-26 15:29:00 · answer #4 · answered by Rev. Kaldea 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
the Mexican name came many centuries after the time of Jesus. The name 'Jesus' is a Latin form of a Greek form of a Hebrew name - it was used by Mexicans after they became Christian.
2007-11-26 15:19:23 · answer #5 · answered by rebecca v d liep 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
The Latin culture names there children after Jesus, not the other way around. I think it's because they are bold enough to name there kids after Jesus, it's awesome, most people are too chicken.
2007-11-26 15:20:54 · answer #6 · answered by liv t 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Mexican names got here from the Spaniards, lots of that are catholic. those catholic mothers and dads gave there little ones bible names. additionally Jesus had the call till now Mexico even existed as a rustic.
2016-09-30 05:23:50 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's similar to the name Joshua in transliteration so by association the name Jesus is fairly common. It means "He will save" or "The Lord Saves".
2007-11-26 15:31:34 · answer #8 · answered by ♥☺ bratiskim∞! ☺♥ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Funny.
Jesus a Mexican name, do you study history?
2007-11-26 15:27:01 · answer #9 · answered by Lost. at. Sea. 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
You do realize that at the time Jesus lived there wasn't a Mexico and therefore no Mexicans so my question is why do Mexicans give their kids Jewish names. (Americans do this too with names like Luke, Matthew, Mark, John, Joseph.....)
2007-11-26 15:21:16 · answer #10 · answered by CaTcHmEiFuCaN 4 · 4⤊ 3⤋